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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Can you produce some science to prove that this is just based on race? I can see a black person with a long criminal history getting a much stiffer sentence than a white guy with no criminal record for the same crime and vice versa, that's kind of how the justice system works. Certainly poverty plays a role but the white supremacist in small town Texas has nothing to do with that with the black guy getting a murder charge in Chicago.
Please provide with some backup to that claim. science.
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It's also an issue of institutionalized poverty and racism. If you have less money, you will have less access to lawyers and other ways of navigating the justice system. The biggest issue is that in America blacks were slaves not too long ago. After slavery ended, they weren't given any kind of restitution. Instead, they were ghettoized. People want to treat this like it was ancient history and something that black populations should have gotten over by now. However, formalized segregation was still happening as late as the 1960s. After it ended, the perception of blacks as criminals has persisted. For example, you have Bernie Sanders (a very pro-civil rights candidate) saying that all blacks live in ghettos. These perceptions of black Americans as poor and criminal become self-fulfilling prophecies.
While you right, that poverty may play a larger role than race, blacks are more likely to both impoverished and perceived as impoverished/criminal. This is why they need special organizations to deal with issues specific to them.