According to the textbook author, blacks and whites interpreted the Jena, Louisiana incident differently according to racial conditioning:
a. Whites saw whites being punished, while transgressions by blacks got a slap on the wrist at most and blacks didn't understand what the fuss was about.
b. Blacks saw blacks being punished, while transgressions by whites got a slap on the wrist at most and whites didn't understand what the fuss was about.
c. Blacks believed that the punishment of the young men was correct and whites did not.
d. Whites wanted the cases dropped for all the boys and blacks wanted all the boys charged with more severe crimes
ANS: b
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