Fat hurts wrote:
DiscoGary wrote:
I'll grant you that one. I don't like the death penalty and this is one of the reasons. I also don't like jail sentences handed out for drug use, because that gets abused too and hits black people harder and I can't imagine how sending someone on drugs to jail makes society better.
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I still don't see the systematic oppression of minorities. It isn't there.
When I first read this, I thought that someone had stolen Gary's identity. You started out very thoughtful and honest.
But then I noticed that last sentence. If you grant that our justice system is horribly racist, you can't say there is no systematic oppression of minorities. We have huge numbers of minorities behind bars while white guys walk. That's about as fundamental and systematic as you can get.
I didn't say it was horribly racist.
It is intellectually dishonest to say some blacks are getting a raw deal in the justice system while blacks commit a huge amount of crime, and then use that as evidence that our society is systematically oppressing blacks. It's very hard to untangle bias against blacks in the justice system from the levels of crime they commit. Those things feed on each other. If I were a leader in the South Side of Chicago, I would say "We need to stop committing so many crimes! No one will treat us with respect if we keep killing each other! Let's see how people treat us when we start behaving right. Oh and while we're at it let's bring families together. That might help.".
For those blacks not committing crimes, where is the systematic oppression by white people? I do not see it. I see white people trying as hard as they can to hold the racial playing level, while liberal activist groups are trying as hard they can to flip it over. That's the real world and no Big Lie or PC brow beating changes that truth.