Czernobog
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Here's an entire study on just that subject. However, since I rather don't exect you to actually read it, as it may force you to re-examine your pre-conceived notions, allow me to give you the highlights:So, it is your contention that African Americans are not disproportionately incarcerated, or targeted by the police?Saying "All lives matter" isn't inherently racist. It is just pointless. Here's what I mean:
You, me, and...asy...30 other prople go to a restaurant for dinner. Everyone gets there food, except Mike.
So, Mike says, "Mike deserves food,"
You respond with ,"All 20 of us deserve food,"
While your statement is factually accurate, it does nothing to alter the fact that Mike still doesn't have his fucking food!!!
While saying "All live matter" is factually accurate, it does nothing to alter the fact that African Americans are being treated unfairly by our justice system. Black Lives Matter isn't about black people hate white people; it is about black people are pissed off at police, and the justice system.
BLM is predicated on a lie.
While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, indicating that racial profiling continues to be a problem. A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.
Students of color face harsher punishments in school than their white peers, leading to a higher number of youth of color incarcerated. Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of confined youth today.
And those are just a few indisputable facts, along with links to support the facts. But, BLM is predicated on a lie...
I disagree with the notion these statistics exist because of the color of their skin. That is a cop out, no pun intended. I can tell you that here where I live, the police presence is targeted primarily at the black areas of town.... because that is where the predominance of the crime exists. Is that because of skin color? Nope. It is due to socio-economic factors for sure, and we can discuss that ad nausium. But, to simply dismiss it as racism is ridiculous.
But, you know...blacks are not treated by a different standards than whites...
1 case does not a trend make. There may be other factors at play her like, hey, maybe he had a better lawyer. Show me wide spread instances of where blacks and whites, given the same crime, are being convicted and sentenced differently.
- Young, black and Latino males (especially if unemployed) are subject to particularly harsh sentencing compared to other offender populations;
- Black and Latino defendants are disadvantaged compared to whites with regard to legal-process related factors such as the “trial penalty,” sentence reductions for substantial assistance, criminal history, pretrial detention, and type of attorney;
- Black defendants convicted of harming white victims suffer harsher penalties than blacks who commit crimes against other blacks or white defendants who harm whites;
- Black and Latino defendants tend to be sentenced more severely than comparably situated white defendants for less serious crimes, especially drug and property crimes.
- In the vast majority of cases, if the murder victim is white, the defendant is more likely to receive a death sentence;
- In a few jurisdictions, notably the federal system, minority defendants (especially blacks) are more likely to receive a death sentence.