Marylee offered up a column, in which she wrote that the juror member, known as #309, (of the Brothers trial), perhaps took his cue to basically recluse himself from serving on the jury, from the “...Rev. Jesse Jackson, who, after learning last year that a black stripper had accused Duke University lacrosse players of rape, promised to pay her college tuition whether her story proved true or not.

The fact is that Jackson told The Associated Press that his organization is committed to making sure the 27-year-old divorced mother of two will never again "have to stoop that low to survive."

Maybe, Marylee has something, both, were kind acts.  The woman was stripping for money, I hear stripping pays pretty well, but I guess Jesse felt that if she had this help from his “Rainbow/Push Coalition,” which he offered, would offer her more choices, and a better chance of “making something” of herself. A hand up, if you will.

Let’s try a hypothetical theory, and consider that#309 was asking for a hand up, let’s say at the begining of the trial, he found himself  seated on the panel, believing that  he would be fair; but he wouldn’t let the jury convict a man just for being ‘black on trial’.

But, things get ugly, and soon every time he looks at Brother, he sees, a black man. A black man who, has become covered in the blood of his own family; and #309, looks over at Brothers, again and sees only red.

He can’t look at Brothers anymore, so he goes up to a co-jurist, but it had to be one, that #309 respected, and believed would make a good leader, for the panel after #309s was gone.

After a little chit-chat, #309, asks the other jurist to, ‘help me, I have to get out of that bloody mess’ going on in the courtroom, and then he spills out his guts.  When called into the Judge's chambers, #309 doesn't lie and say that he has already made up his mind, and he doesn't deny the other jury members accusations.  He is freed to go home and try to forget the whole thing ever happened, and then, now freed to read the whole paper again, reads Marylee's column, and cries.

I think both the Rainbow Coalition and Juror #309 both, did a good thing.  Marylee did a bad thing,  but then as Marcella McMahon wrote,  "The true test of a persons importance is not what he has, but how she treats the souls around him.