Local attorney 
examines biases 
in criminal justice 
system, legal rulings

On Monday night, a crowd of 20 
people, mostly women, gathered 
in the Ypsilanti District Library 
to partake in a panel put on by 
Mothering Justice, a non-profit 
organization that advocates for 
women to become active in policy-
making. The panel discussed how 
Black women are viewed in the 
legal system.
The focal point of the evening 
was the caricature of “Sapphire,” 
a character made famous on the 
“Amos n’ Andy” show. According 
to Ferris State University, the 
character Sapphire was a berating 
housewife who saw her husband as 
a failure and regularly scolded him 
for his flaws. 

Attorney Erane Washington, 
who practiced law for 26 years and 
opened her own law firm in 2005, 
said the Sapphire narrative has 
not only negatively impacted her 
clients’ lives, but hers as well.
Washington also told a story of 
road rage between an older Black 
woman and two young white men. 
The two white men jumped out of 
the car and started harassing the 
woman. Fearing for her life, she 
placed her gun on the passenger 
seat 
and 
was 
charged 
with 
brandishing a weapon. Though 
the older woman was acquitted, 
Washington said she thinks the 
situation would have progressed 
much differently if she was white. 
“If it had been a white man 
that pulled the gun out to protect 
himself, nine times out of ten no 
charges would have occurred,” 
Washington said. “But it was a 
Black woman, so she was charged 
was brandishing a weapon.”

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C.S. Mott hosts 
car show for kids

Friendship inspires 
annual event on
roof for children
in hospital

On Sunday morning, around 
150 kids, family members and 
more 
than 
200 
volunteers 
gathered on top of the parking 
garage at C.S. Mott Children’s 
Hospital at the University of 
Michigan for the sixth annual 
Caden’s Car Show. 
The car show takes place 
every year during the summer 
and is preceded by a fundraiser 
the Friday before the show. 
Full Throttle, an organization 
focused 
on 
congenital 
heart 
research, raised around $68,000 
dollars this year. 
The car show is a way to 
brighten the Mott patients’ day 
and to raise awareness for organ 
donation, according to Christine 
La 
Jeunesse, 
administrative 
director for Congenital Heart 
Center at Mott. La Jeunesse said 
she has helped plan the event 
for the past few years and said it 
positively impacts patients. 
“For 
the 
families 
in 
the 
hospital it’s time away from a 
difficult time in their life,” La 
Jeunesse said. “It’s sunshine and 
a sense of hope for the future. “
Caden’s Car Show grew out 
of a friendship between Jean 

Jennings, former president and 
editor-in-chief 
of 
Automobile 
Magazine, and Caden Bowles, a 
young boy born with hypoplastic 
left heart syndrome, which left 
him with half a heart. Caden had 
a passion for cars that rivaled 
most 
car 
experts, 
Jennings 
said, which was apparent to 
everyone he met. The fundraiser 
is named after a hand-drawn car 
newsletter Caden created. 
Meg 
Zamberlan, 
pediatric 
nurse practitioner and pediatric 
heart 
transplant 
program 
coordinator at Mott’s congenital 
heart center, called Automobile 
Magazine when Jennings worked 
as Editor in Chief, and Jennings 
decided to go and visit seven-
year-old Caden. Caden was in the 
hospital with cancer resulting 
from anti-rejection drugs from 
the heart transplant he had when 
he was one. 
Jennings said when she walked 
into Caden’s room he was talking 
about Jaguar cars, and she was 
immediately taken with him. 
“I walked in that room and 
I could see the ball of light 
surrounding 
him,” 
Jennings 
said. “This kid was something to 
reckon with. He was so engaging, 
he was so amazing.” 
They 
quickly 
formed 
a 
friendship. Jennings said she 
brought him toy cars and books, 
and they wrote letters to each 
other after Jennings left.

Talk looks at Black 
life, legal system

OLIVIA SCOTT
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