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In Batson v. Kentucky case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the discriminatory use of peremptory challenges by a prosecutor to strike black venirepersons from the jury in a criminal case with an Afro-American defendant. Under the Batson test, once a defendant makes out a prima facie case of such use, the prosecutor must offer a race-neutral explanation for the strikes, which will be evaluated by the court. This test was intended to prevent discrimination from intruding into the judicial process. In subsequent cases, however, the Court has interpreted the phrase "race-neutral" to require only that the attorney's explanation for the strikes not explicitly refer to race or other protected status. This interpretation has effectively transformed this step of the Batson inquiry into a "say no evil, see no evil" test in which courts defer to any explanation, regardless of how unreasonable or implausible.

The author argues in favor of the addition of art activity in the U.S. school curriculum. She discusses art activity as an essential and integral part of the daily program for children and for adults who are training to work with children as teachers, counselors and leaders. She urges art educators to participate in organized action on the whole educational front. She mentions such effort made by the National Art Education Association (NAEA).