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I Like Toast posted...

Everyone knows the statistics and statistics are easy to dismiss with people doing what winrawr did, "oh it was probably because of" and handwave the problem away. It's much harder to have any empathy and look at the individuals getting fucked over by an unjust justice system. If the punishment doesn't fit the crime, because the laws were written to go after certain groups of people. That's just as much a problem as that black men are more likely to be convicted to jailtime then white men. That an innocent black man is going to wait 3 times longer to get exonerated as a white man.

it's not like anyone who cares isn't aware of the statistics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/16/black-men-sentenced-to-more -time-for-committing-the-exact-same-crime-as-a-white-person-study-finds/

As you can tell, I didn't read the case and used a hypothetical example. On a case-by-case level, you can't just compare sentences to formulate a narrative. Someone could just as easily cherry pick how black persons in some scenario happened to get an easier sentence.

I sense that you fundamentally don't understand how to convey your argument that systematic racism exists (it does) in a convicing way based off proper statistical analysis. The only thing you are doing is embarrassing yoursel, and providing opportunities for deniers of social injustice to easily shut down your weak arguments.