@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
Give me a break since at least the last 50 years there is nothing to stop blacks or anyone else from exercising their rights in the US so there is zero excused to take to the street instead of the voting booth.
If the black population do not care enough to register to vote then it is strange that they care enough to send their young people into harm way instead!!!!!!
Hell it is likely that they could fired the whole police department and turn over the policing to the county or some such as had happen more then once in my part of the nation.
That is what we've been conditioned to think, so that we consider the fucked up trajectory of black people is due to their laziness or moral/mental inferiority. So we can sit back on our lounge chairs and be thankful we spend billions incarcerating them. So that political bosses in the US are thanked for becoming millionaires off of the prison system rather than arrested for crimes against humanity...
But,...
(Mission Impossible excerpt music to get your attention)
Contemporary ideologies concerning the structure of the criminal justice system often purports that the system is somehow broken and in dire need of repair from the institutionalized racism that continues to permeate the system. However, to make this assertion of "brokenness" is to also make the assumption that the system was void of any racialized erroneous features at its genesis. This resounding fallacy concerning the structural makeup of the criminal justice system is exasperating because historical trends in justice administration have shown that the criminal justice system is not broken, it was designed that way. The criminal justice system was created in such a way to disadvantage, subdue, and control certain minority groups, namely African Americans. Trends in every facet of criminal justice research concerning police, courts and corrections, provide evidence that the criminal justice system is doing exactly what it was designed to do - marginalize and control minority populations. Although African Americans comprise 13% of the U.S. population, they account for 29% of arrests, 38% of prisoners in state and federal facilities, 42% of death penalty cases, and 37% of executions (Snell, 2011). Research continues to highlight the racial disparities that infiltrate the criminal justice system. While often the recipient of differential treatment, subjective laws, and more punitive sentences, African Americans experience the wrath of the criminal justice system when they are the offenders of crimes. However, when African Americans are victimized by crimes, their victimization is often disregarded and/or addressed with futile effort.
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The legal, prison, court, you-name-it systems in this country were designed to control specifically black - but now other "undesirable" minorities so whites can maintain "control."
http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/systemisntbroken.html#.VwJ3rPkrKt8
This is why blacks are often in the streets - and why you and I would be if this was our reality.
This is one reason I back Bernie Sanders. He admits it, and vows to dismantle it. THESE types of responses to the stunning inequality in America might just eradicate the need for racial violence.
Acting as though institutional racism doesn't exist throws gas on a dumpster fire. It starts with accepting the truth. The next step is being part of the solution.
