(07-12-2016 07:37 PM)GoBigRed26 Wrote: (07-11-2016 12:30 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: (07-11-2016 12:26 PM)AppManDG Wrote: Ark30inf
Many white people choose to ignore that the justice system is indeed systematically biased against African-Americans.
I've heard this tossed around for longer than I can recall, yet no one has been able to prove it. Simply using numbers of blacks in jail or arrest records is not an accurate measurement. To say law enforcement or judges intentionally deal with black people more harshly is just plain wrong.
If a Priviledged White man was arrested for a crime, he gets to spend millions on a strong defense team to work to get him out of the charge, or to reduce the jail time, with sweetheart deals for Federal prisons
If a Poor Black Man was arrested for the same crime, he'd get stuck with a Public Defender, who doesn't know him from Adam, is probably balancing 12 case loads, and works in a closet that he calls an office that has no money to spend on the guys defense. He likely ends up being encouraged to plead guity for a lesser sentence, despite the fact he may or may not have committed the crime in question.
Perhaps the only change that should be made is that it's more biased based on Social/Economic class, but it is very biased.
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That's a piss poor analogy. If a poor white man is arrested for the same crime, he'd get stuck with a public defender that doesn't know him from Adam who'd encourage him to plead guilty to a lesser crime. If a privileged Black man gets arrested, he gets to spend money on an expensive defense team to get him off. Just look at OJ.
You've also shown you have no knowledge of the Memphis bridge or just like to distort reality to push own your agenda. Just because they aren't directly under the support beams of the bridge doesn't mean they didn't get stuck. There's around three miles of elevated interstate in Arkansas from the last access point until you get over the bridge. There were hundreds of people stuck for hours. There was a family taking their child that needed medical attention to Lebonheur, but got stuck. They had to wait for an ambulance that came up the wrong way side of the interstate and then pass him over a barrier so they could go around to the I-55 bridge.
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Isn't purposely blocking a public transportation route a crime, whether in an act of civil disobedience or not?