The voices not heard at family gatherings are often the most important. The voices of "Tyrique," "Shaniqua," "Jamal" and their peers were denied a hearing at the recent gathering of New Jersey's legal family in a Judicial Conference on Jury Selection. This despite the fact that the once and future treatment of Black people in the justice system is how our democracy shall be judged. Rather than face the need to explore why these people should be left with their current complement of judicially supervised peremptory challenges, the Conference's convening authority turned a deaf ear to the voices of this Black cohort.