I believe the system has racist bearings to it particularly when it’s fueled with disdain for people of color and poor people. The majority of cops don’t understand the culture of culprits they are trying to catch, most DAs stretch the law to get better conviction rates, most judges are former prosecutors and so on and so on. Not all cops, judges, prosecutors, etc., are racist but I think they end result just can’t be justified by saying blacks have higher crime rates. Blacks and latinos are profiled and arrested more. Some of the arrests, not all, are unwarranted or don’t fit what they’ve been charged with. This is not something I’m hypothetically pondering about. This is something I know. This is something I experienced. Like spending a night in jail because you’ve moved and the cop believes your lying about your current address. Like getting a jaywalking ticket after cops call you across the street to interogate you about a friend of yours. Like getting stopped repeatedly just so a cop can run your tags and check for warrants, regardless if you’ve done anything at all. Of course, these could all be coincidences and at the end of the day, I deal with them and move on. But I’m just saying don’t give me that we don’t have a racist problem we just have a black crime problem. We have both.

The race industry and its elite enablers take it as self-evident that high black incarceration rates result from discrimination. At a presidential primary debate this Martin Luther King Day, for instance, Senator Barack Obama charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences . . . for the same crime.” Not to be outdone, Senator Hillary Clinton promptly denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African-Americans proportionately than whites.”