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I mean, Jim Crow was not exactly flying under the radar, CC.
That's not exactly what ins utional racism is. It's more like "we don't know who did what, but hey, Rufus is black. Let's start there."
Actually, you could start with the progressive policy of soft racism in schools. The prevailing logic was that minority students could not excel like a white student could. Therefore, there needed to be all kinds of accomodations for the black student. It wasn't until Bush and co took the reigns in Tx that that policy was shown for exactly what it was. Ins utional racism.
I mean, Jim Crow was not exactly flying under the radar, CC.
was is was
BTW, the FBI cite wasn't just arrests or suspected, but arrested and charged by a grand jury.
In the UCR Program, a law enforcement agency reports that an offense is cleared by arrest, or solved for crime reporting purposes, when three specific conditions have been met. The three conditions are that at least one person has been:
Arrested.
Charged with the commission of the offense.
Turned over to the court for prosecution (whether following arrest, court summons, or police notice).
One. The US has seen a surge in arrests and putting people in jail over the last four decades. Most of the reason is the war on drugs. Yet whites and blacks engage in drug offenses, possession and sales, at roughly comparable rates — according to a report on race and drug enforcement published by Human Rights Watch in May 2008. While African Americans comprise 13% of the US population and 14% of monthly drug users they are 37% of the people arrested for drug offenses — according to 2009 Congressional testimony by Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.
Start here, and free your mind.
http://newamericamedia.org/2010/08/f...ice-system.php
Thanks. I'm looking for convictions.
prosecutorial misconduct isn't necessarily racism.
Jim Crow was an example of ins utional racism...you know that thing you say doesn't exist.
See: Ins utional.
Ok, it was prosecutorial not-necessarily-racism aimed at a black man.
Got it.
Please......
Admitting it exists does not make you complicit in it's existence. Denial, however, pretty much does.
Then move your own damn goalpost....
13% of the population, 53% of the murders prosecuted. Still a shocking statistic. I didn't realize it until I just looked today. You certainly don't hear about it in the media.
I choose not to be complicit.
Dude, it's been all over the place for the last 3 decades. This is not news anymore.Then move your own damn goalpost....
13% of the population, 53% of the murders prosecuted. Still a shocking statistic. I didn't realize it until I just looked today. You certainly don't hear about it in the media.
I'm saying that prosecutors typically cheat to get the win, not just to over a black guy. Not knowing him personally or haqving done any extensive investigation I suspect a prosecutor inclined to cheat to win will do it no matter what the race of the defendant.
The frustrating thing is we're on the actual cusp of being able to address this. We have the data. We have the research. We have methodologies galore (not saying all or any of them are the magic bullet), but we don't have the social acknowledgement yet that this is an actual problem. Almost there. Not quite.
A prosecutor that cheats to win will likely not prosecute for long.
That appears to be a self limiting career technique.
Can you really deny that the black population is a "target rich environment"?
Ever wonder why that is? Because when you start there, you are beginning to ask the right questions.
When I broach this in other forums, I usually get labeled a "White Guilt" lib .
That always makes me giggle.
'shup Creepn or I'll have a talk with CF.
I can't enjoy a cosmic cowboy beatdown without being threatened?'shup Creepn or I'll have a talk with CF.
See: Structural (bbs) racism.
Actually, I figured you'd jump on the lib label. It was a pre-emptive strike.
I'm not trying to beat down CC. I like the dude. Just want to have this discussion with him..and so far he's participating quite well.
What beat down? All I have done is quote FBI statistics.
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