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...young American who have been marketed to since they could say "Atari" may not be as easy to convince. "Young people want something that's packaged in a way that they can understand and is compelling, but when they rip open the package they want something real," says Rob Nelson, 29, the T-shirt and acid-washed jeans poster boy of Lead or Leave, another upstart youth group...
...include as many bleeders as possible." Half of the liberal who were invited declined. "They just wanted us to give them some legitimacy," explains Jonathan S. Cohn '91, a former Crimson president and writer for the American Prospect. And two prominent liberals who signed the Third Millennium declaration, Rob Nelson and Jon Cowan of Lead or Leave, later repudiated any affiliation with the group...
When Lemrick Nelson Jr. was acquitted nearly two years ago in the racially motivated stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian Hasidic scholar, Rosenbaum's friends were, naturally, upset...
They though Nelson, A 17-year-old Black youth from Brooklyn, had gottten away with murder. And they blamed the jury of six Blacks, four Hispanics and two whites for letting him. "Yankel Rosenbaum's fate was decided by a jury of what was certainly not his peers," one protestor said then...
...protestor was wrong in one respect. it wasn't Yankel Rosenbaum's fate that the jury was deciding--it was Lemrick Nelson's . Whether or not the verdict was fair, it was the product of a judicial system that, quite logically, favors the accused over the victim...