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In reply to the discussion: Silence Makes White People Racist [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)sentence for black young men today and there is the proof of the racism and the inequality of the law: Shopping for a toy gun in WalMart, selling ones own cigarettes, jaywalking, shoplifting, speeding to the hospital in an emergency, walking home wearing a hoodie and the list goes on. All of these ended in death. Often this is part of a police quota system that in itself is racist and a taxation on both black people and the poor.
I am white and I will tell you I have seen all of these things done in my community and no one was killed. In fact they are often ignored. Shoplifting is taken to court and speeding to the hospital in an emergency often ends in the police leading the race to the hospital with their siren on. If this is not applying the law unequally I do not know what is.
It is the responsibility of the courts, the law enforcement, the prosecutors, the juries and government to see that this is changed. And it should have happened long ago.