Correction

WV No. 1028 (9 August) reprinted a Spartacist League leaflet on the George Zimmerman verdict, “There Is No Justice in the Capitalist Courts!” noting that we had made a factual correction without stating what it was. The correction was to the leaflet’s description of Dred Scott as a fugitive slave. Though enslaved at the time of the notorious 1857 Supreme Court decision, Dred Scott was never a fugitive. The leaflet also stated that the jury in the Zimmerman trial had not a single black person on it, as was widely reported at the time. Subsequently, one of the jurors identified herself to the press as a black Hispanic.