Couldn’t agree more, discrimination is bad, but echoes of racism still reverberate throughout our system, ESPECIALLY the justice and educational system, which is why I target those areas most. The conviction rate is still much higher for black people, they are arrested without cause more often too. The near majority of people in prison are black, and while that merely means that black people commit more crimes, that does not penetrate to the heart of the issue. Black people have a higher crime rate because they’ve been more historically poor due to continuing and past discrimination and economic inequality, which directly translates to more crime. The institutional racism is very much real, but it’s more glaring depending on where you look. States like California and New York try to use affirmative action as a lazy counterbalance, which is why I don’t favor it, I merely view it as a method of equalizing the scales. Hiring based off of merit for SOME areas is misguided in understanding of racial bias in systems, and is practically guaranteed to backfire.
The conviction rate for blacks is much higher because blacks commit more crimes of all sorts, use more drugs, and murder more people than whites. That is not something I said out of racial prejudice, that is just a statistical fact. Blacks are not poor because of discrimination, they are poor because Lyndon B. Johnson destroyed the black nuclear family with his Great Society Programmes, and because Welfare pays them more to work than get a job. They are languishing in these horrid conditions most of all, though, because of the toxic victim mentality force fed these poor people by the Radical… Read more
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The conviction rate is higher because they’ve been in poorer conditions, thanks largely to discrimination in the past. Most of the ghettos and broken down cities in which poor black populations are concentrated have been left largely untouched while still feeling the effects of racial segregation and discrimination in the past. We’ve signed laws against discrimination, but that didn’t even come CLOSE to killing its effects. The Great Society merely failed to address things on a more individual level, rather, it simply threw money at the issue, exacerbating previous culture… Read more
*Sorry, Welfare pays them more to DO NOTHING than to work. Typo.