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Systemic racism
WestlinnDuck
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One of the constant refrains repeated ad nauseam is the comment from blacks and just about any reporter or commentator is the lament about the systemic racism that faces black Americans. Not being black, I don't have any first hand info. So, what is that systemic racism? Your born in a modern US hospital, not in hut in Africa. You are provided with shelter and food if your parents or parent can't provide them. You get free schooling in schools run by democrats and blacks. You can get a job. If fact prior to the chicom crud shutdown, blacks had record low unemployment. You are free to travel the entire country. I'm not free to wonder around Compton. So, I'm accused of having white privilege and being a systemic racist. But what are the real facts about that conclusion?
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Blacks have higher incarceration rates than whites. It can't be on account of the fact that blacks commit more crime, it has to be racism.
Could it be that the very same behavioral issues that would prompt you to engage in looting and robbery, greater rates of out of wedlock births, higher high school drop out rates, and greater representation in nearly every other social ill you can think of might also be responsible for lower household income and net worth?
Could there possibly be a connection or is white racism the unifying theory for all of this?
You can always choose to not believe him, or say it's all overblown, but you shouldn't be confused about what the argument is.
At the end of the day, these are unique problems that a large number of black teenagers (and adults) have to deal with, through no fault of their own. And that's tragic.
I recall black democrats calling Reagan a racist because he didn't do enough to fight the crack epidemic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/3100-inmates-to-be-released-as-trump-administration-implements-criminal-justice-reform/2019/07/19/7ed0daf6-a9a4-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?outputType=amp
Biden and Clinton did a lot of damage with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that is taking a while to undo.
But I've also dealt with white teachers who have held him to lower academic and behavioral standards also because of his black skin.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6/1/21275944/chicago-weekend-shootings-most-violent-weekend-2020-may-29-june-1
Nineteen people were killed and at least 63 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago’s most violent weekend of the year so far, which also saw widespread protests, riots and looting throughout the city in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
More than half of the weekend’s victims were shot on Sunday as the city reeled from violent protests Saturday night that led to hundreds of arrests and the implementation of a curfew.
The weekend’s toll surpasses the tally from the same weekend in 2019, when 52 people were wounded — 8 fatally — in citywide gun violence.
Would he trade with a 5 foot 10 130 high school senior who is white?
I agree we try too many one size fits all fixes. Zero tolerance is lazy and stupid. Make calls based on the individual.
America actually discusses race quite a bit. Since I was a youngin. Sometimes its honest sometimes it is not. It is still tough to be a young black male and its better than ever. Everyone is a victim of something or they choose to be a victor. That crosses all races.
That and America has never had a black president because racism!!!!!!!!!
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Here are the major provisions of the
First Step Act:
The bill would make retroactive the reforms enacted by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which reduced the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences at the federal level. This could affect nearly 2,600 federal inmates, according to the Marshall Project.
The bill would take several steps to ease mandatory minimum sentences under federal law. It would expand the “safety valve” that judges can use to avoid handing down mandatory minimum sentences. It would ease a “three strikes” rule so people with three or more convictions, including for drug offenses, automatically get 25 years instead of life, among other changes. It would restrict the current practice of stacking gun charges against drug offenders to add possibly decades to prison sentences. All of these changes would lead to shorter prison sentences in the future.
The bill would increase “good time credits” that inmates can earn. Inmates who avoid a disciplinary record can currently get credits of up to 47 days per year incarcerated. The bill increases the cap to 54, allowing well-behaved inmates to cut their prison sentence by an additional week for each year they’re incarcerated. The change applies retroactively, which could allow some prisoners — as many as 4,000 — to qualify for release the day that the bill goes into effect.
The bill would allow inmates to get “earned time credits” by participating in more vocational and rehabilitative programs. Those credits would allow them to be released early to halfway houses or home confinement. Not only could this mitigate prison overcrowding, but the hope is that the education programs will reduce the likelihood that an inmate will commit another crime once released and, as a result, reduce both crime and incarceration in the long term. (There’s research showing that education programs do reduce recidivism.)