>> What is the quality of the analysis that you think proves that conclusion?
It is actually pretty simple: Blacks make up 13% of the population, yet commit 52% of murders (obviously, we're talking about violent crime overall, but in the context of death sentence we're discussing, pretty much, murders).
Unless you just think there is widespread fraud in the legal process that yields a large percentage of false outcomes, it is hard to get past these numbers.
I have on a couple of occasions (Donte Callen in Birmingham is one) seen episodes of First 48 where the guy clearly committed the murders but I thought he was likely incompetent -- yet they went for (and ultimately got) a death sentence. His crime was heinous, but this kind of thing I wonder about sometimes. In another state he would have gotten less.
But I just don't see any evidence that racism is a factor here.
At any rate, it is unreasonable to expect that American Whites are to be held hostage to the past of their lineal ancestors into perpetuity. It is entirely inconsistent with everything we know about the American Way.
That's why I keep asking, if there is proof of racism, where is it?
It is un-helpful to tell Black young people that they are owed something. First, because they're not, but secondly because that will only drag them down.
I hope when Trump is re-elected, the first thing he says is that America is going back to work. Because there are a lot of people sitting around waiting to fall ass-backward into a big pile of money, and while some may accomplish that in life, counting on it isn't a very sensible plan. |
