> You are trying to dilute the impact the racist history of US has had on minorities via the justice system.
Hasn't anyone told you that you learn more with questions than assertions?
No. I'm saying that the language used is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Regardless of all the stuff you mentioned, which is true, the system is still a benefit.
You should not go out of your way to further weaken trust in the system that has benefitted those minorities you mention more than it has hurt them. Especially as you are presumably not those groups, you should be careful not to wreck what they have. (You may not be aware, but white 'progressives' often speak for people of color. Their messages sound like ones of support initially, but because these people are often merely social signaling the rhetoric can often prove harmful to people who have to live with it.)
> [...] all disproportionately impact minority groups compared to Caucasians
Some minorities, yes. Others, no. Deeply troubling to the white v black narrative is that Nigerian immigrants often do very well in the USA, even when Americans don't know if they're american-descendants-of-slavery or not.
But yes, ADoS do have it rough. If you want to support someone though, vague "minorities" is not how you do it.
> Per the Innocence Project, 70% of the cases
You can't use that stat in that way, presumably they picked the most egregious cases which would be the poorest, etc.
I think you're saying minorities are better off with a justice system than without. Maybe everyone is technically better off with a justice system, than with something like vigilante justice, but the US has always had some level of justice system even during slavery. Was it really to their benefit at that time? Can we say things have improved, yes, very slowly, but systemic racism still exists.
>You can't use that stat in that way, presumably they picked the most egregious cases which would be the poorest, etc.
No, you cannot just ignore ingrained racism within the judicial system from day one as simply being a class issue. You can read more from the National Registry of Exonerations about racial bias in exonerated cases[1].
Hasn't anyone told you that you learn more with questions than assertions?
No. I'm saying that the language used is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Regardless of all the stuff you mentioned, which is true, the system is still a benefit.
You should not go out of your way to further weaken trust in the system that has benefitted those minorities you mention more than it has hurt them. Especially as you are presumably not those groups, you should be careful not to wreck what they have. (You may not be aware, but white 'progressives' often speak for people of color. Their messages sound like ones of support initially, but because these people are often merely social signaling the rhetoric can often prove harmful to people who have to live with it.)
> [...] all disproportionately impact minority groups compared to Caucasians
Some minorities, yes. Others, no. Deeply troubling to the white v black narrative is that Nigerian immigrants often do very well in the USA, even when Americans don't know if they're american-descendants-of-slavery or not.
But yes, ADoS do have it rough. If you want to support someone though, vague "minorities" is not how you do it.
> Per the Innocence Project, 70% of the cases
You can't use that stat in that way, presumably they picked the most egregious cases which would be the poorest, etc.