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Old 2012-05-09, 01:43 PM   [Ignore Me] #518
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Re: Trayvon Martin


Originally Posted by The Desert Fox View Post
If anyone saw the Colbert Report last night it really made me LOL. A black girl was on the show promoting her new book "The new Jim Crow". According to her whites are keeping the black community down by arresting more black people using/selling drugs then white people. So she is comparing horribly racist and discriminatory laws that were put in place to keep the black community down, to us arresting more black people who are breaking the law then white people breaking the law? Cause that's the same.

Even Colbert was buying her BS, This is too good.
Yes, the police started off targeting black people because they were openly racist which inflated the black prison population. Then as racism became more taboo the police justified their racist policies by pointing at the large black prison population.

If the police were to stop disproportionately targeting stop and searches at black people (the vast majority of whom have nothing found on them) and give them the same level of attention they give to white people then they would find that the ratio's of crime would drop for black people. The same goes if they gave white people the same level of attention they give to black people currently, the crime levels would rise significantly for white people.
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