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Originally Posted by beyelzu
blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime.
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That's true, but I also think blacks are arrested a disproportianate amount of the time and receive disproportionate sentences.
And where I live
some cops
do arrest black people for no reason. "He fit the description" is good enough. A black man robs a convenience store -- call goes out on the radio with a description of a black man of a certain height -- certain cops arrest the first black man they see about that height.
Black people get pulled over for minor violations like having an air freshener hanging from their rear-view mirror far more often than white people.
When a white person in a trashy car gets pulled over, how likely is it that he will be ordered to lie face-down on the ground while the cops aim guns at him?
The head of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission, a black man, was questioned by police who were conducting an investigation. The fact that he was questioned was not in itself alarming. The fact that they asked him 6 times who his Mercedes really belonged to - after he had produced ID and proof of title to the car - was.
There was a case here a few years ago where a woman called 911 because two American Indians were passed out on her front step. She expected them to send an ambulance. Instead, the police came and loaded the men into the trunk of their car, closed it, and drove them to detox.
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Originally Posted by Beth
I think that the racial tensions in this nation will not ease until the south no longer has those alive that remember being oppressed by the law or those who remember being superiors to those oppressed.
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It's not just the south. Duluth, Minnesota had a lynching in the 30s. There was, and still is, plenty of oppression in the north.