WuWei
July 7, 2020, 2:18pm
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tnt:
WuWei:
Corey Ladd
Your own rant points to systemic racism…
You have a half ounce of weed, it’s a ticket, you have half ounce and a gun you go to jail. Now, who do you think is going to be more likely to have a gun on them? A white drug user, or the inner city drug seller, selling to the white guy?
So…that’s an example of systemic racism. Even more blatant that my example.
Going back to my examples.
Central park 5:
rosecution of the five remaining defendants - Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam - in the rape and assault case was based primarily on confessions which they had made after police interrogations. None had counsel during this questioning. Within weeks, they each withdrew these confessions, pleaded not guilty, and refused plea deals on the rape and assault charges. None of the suspects’ DNA matched the DNA collected from the crime scene: two semen samples that both belonged to one unidentified man. No substantive physical evidence connected any of the five teenagers to the rape scene, but each was convicted in 1990 of related assault and other charges. Subsequently, known as the Central Park Five , they received sentences ranging from 5 to 15 years. Four of the defendants appealed their convictions, but these were affirmed by appellate courts. The four juvenile defendants served 6–7 years each; the 16-year-old was tried and sentenced as an adult and served 13 years in an adult prison. The five other defendants, indicted for assaults of other victims, pleaded guilty to reduced charges and received less severe sentences.
Central Park jogger case - Wikipedia
Brock Turner
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turner-stanford/index.html
Why did 5 innocent black kids end up in jail for years and years while a guilty white guy serves 6 months?
Because the system is set up to disadvantage black people, and the system gives discretion in ways that ultimately lead to discrimination for a variety of reasons.
The black kids didn’t have a lawyer present.
The white kid had a high priced attorney every step of the way.
The judge in the black kids case levied harsh punishment.
The judge in the white kids case worried for the white kids future.
This is systemic racism.
As is your example of drug laws.
Why is the system designed to allow this? That’s a whole 'other conversation. but the system is rigged against people of color.
Are you trying to compare those two cases? I don’t even have to click the links to start seeing the differences. Fail.
Wealth privilege is not racial. Find me a case of a wealthy black Stanford student convicted of raping and sentenced to 5 years.
Confessed, then changed? Sounds familiar.
Miscarriages of “justice”? Most assuredly. Racial? Absolutely not.
Interesting your pointing to New York and California as examples of something something racial something.
WuWei
July 7, 2020, 2:24pm
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Oh, and I don’t appreciate you referring to my efforts to educate you as a “rant”.
That’s a question that Biden should answer since he has been around the “systemic racism” for 50 years.
Is your definition of “innocent”
-they didn’t do it
Or do you think those are the same thing?
tnt
July 7, 2020, 3:12pm
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WuWei:
Using / selling. Fail.
Can’t have one without the other.
But why do you think our criminal justice system has always focused on the selling side of the equation instead of the use side?
tnt
July 7, 2020, 3:14pm
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Ok, well, despite obvious evidence you seem to believe there is no such thing as systemic racism.
Very well.
zantax
July 7, 2020, 3:21pm
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Umm because if I buy a drug and overdose, I have committed suicide. If I sold you a drug that killed you, I have committed murder? Are you somehow imagining it is for some racial reason?
WuWei
July 7, 2020, 3:26pm
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You haven’t proven it does. There is no “obvious evidence”.
It did. It doesn’t.
You do know, dont you (?) that the left really is trying to codify the occurence of unequal outcomes at the statistical level as “systemic racism”.
You have a good post. But the left on this site is shaking their collective heads saying “he just doesn’t understand what systemic racism is.”
WuWei
July 7, 2020, 3:29pm
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Why do you think it is? Are you claiming there are more black drug dealers?
WuWei
July 7, 2020, 3:30pm
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Call_me_Ishmael:
You do know, dont you (?) that the left really is trying to codify the occurence of unequal outcomes at the statistical level as “systemic racism”.
You have a good post. But the left on this site is shaking their collective heads saying “he just doesn’t understand what systemic racism is.”
Yes, I do. The left doesn’t know what the word systemic means.
tzu
July 7, 2020, 3:32pm
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If my fellow travelers were being honest, they would acknowledge that Crime Bill Joe is less likely than an erratic Trump to do any damage to structural racism.
As for structural racism, it is the very economic, political and social construct of American life. It is no easier for a beneficiary of its redistributive forces too see its obviousness than it is for a white Dutchman too see Zwarte Piet as overtly racist.
If they can change the definition of “man” and “woman”, anything is vulnerable to their strategy of controlling the lexicon.
WuWei
July 7, 2020, 3:33pm
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tzu:
If my fellow travelers were being honest, they would acknowledge that Crime Bill Joe is less likely than an erratic Trump to do any damage to structural racism.
As for structural racism, it is the very economic, political and social construct of American life. It is no easier for a beneficiary of its redistributive forces too see its obviousness than it is for a white Dutchman too see Zwarte Piet as overtly racist.
Now it’s structural and invisible to everybody but libs.
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tzu:
If my fellow travelers were being honest, they would acknowledge that Crime Bill Joe is less likely than an erratic Trump to do any damage to structural racism.
As for structural racism, it is the very economic, political and social construct of American life. It is no easier for a beneficiary of its redistributive forces too see its obviousness than it is for a white Dutchman too see Zwarte Piet as overtly racist.
Or for a black man to see Al Sharpton as overtly racist.
Sure… if you could see it, you could fix it. And then their grievance and victimhood is eliminated and Democrats lose their reason for being.
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That’s because they are WOKE
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