Comment by halostatue
4 years ago
No, what I wrote is experience. Just because I don’t give you a detailed example of the history where I know what I wrote to be true does not make it less experiential.
White racism in Georgia is deep and has decades of experience in cloaking itself in plausible deniability to confuse the weak-minded.
Or have you never heard of Lee Atwater (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater)?
The same logic of experience drives police officers to draw their guns on 'suspicious' young black males. They are, after all, by far the most criminal demographic in the U.S., and most cops in racially mixed areas will have some bad prior experiences with them.
Are they justified doing so, in your opinion? Or if not, where is the line where experience should stop counting?
They are not the most criminal demographic in the U.S.
They are the most criminally profiled demographic in the U.S.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/police/Police-and-minoritie...
There is absolutely no justification for the recent extrajudicial murder of an unarmed black motorist by cops who shot him 60 times.
There is absolutely no justification for the murder of Tamir Rice.
Black people in America are overpoliced. When presented with the same crime, Black people are routinely charged more often, charged more intensely (the number and severity of the charges are higher), and convicted more often.
Your ignorance on this matter is showing.
Young black males are massively overrepresented when it comes to murder convictions.
Are you suggesting that murders committed by other racial groups are routinely going unpunished, or that random blacks are framed for them instead of the real perpetrators?
Because if neither, your thesis about profiling does not hold water. You cannot "profile" people as murderers. They either did that or not.
I don't doubt that there are some false convictions for murder even today, but either:
a) blacks are really massively overrepresented among the murderers (and victims), or, if they are not,
b) there is a nationwide conspiracy either not to investigate and punish non-black murderers, or to frame innocent blacks for them, that reaches the level necessary for massive manipulation of U.S. crime stats.
B) would be an extraordinary claim that would need extraordinary evidence.
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