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'truth. It's an Old English word. From England, where all our ancestors


...come from'. & just then the camera zooms in on a Black woman juror's face. 1 of the many clever gags in this great movie.

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I noticed that just last night when watching. Didn't she do a little wtf? frown?

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That was priceless. I started a similar thread years ago because it's so funny to see her face but also considering the fact that verdict actually comes from the French word verité, from the Latin veritas, meaning truth long before the English got a hold of it. Trotter was the quintessential one eyed king in the land of the blind!

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him: Henning von Tresckow.

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According to 23andme, "The average African-American genome, for example, is 73.2% African, 24% European, and 0.8% Native American". I'm willing to bet a good amount of that European ancestry is English so chances are that lady does have English ancestry.

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