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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Aboriginals engage in far far risky behaviour on a per capita basis than any other ethnicity. They suffer from solvent (not substance) but solvent abuse at alarming rates, drug addiction, sexual abuse, lack of education, lack of social bonds and are more likely to end up in jail, not because the system is racist, but because they are more likely to commit crimes.
There are reasons for these, social and systemic reasons, but these are facts nonetheless. This is not a "racist" system, but it's a system that results in far more aboriginals being imprisoned.
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I don’t disagree with much of this really. However, the “system” isn’t just the criminal justice system. And the broad “system” is clearly discriminatory in many ways. For example, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal recently found that the federal government hasn’t been systematically discriminating against First Nations children in its provision of child welfare services.