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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsANY oppressed group, enslaved group, will likely have larger criminal record
statistics because they are born into a system where being BORN makes them criminals.
Drug laws ALL are designed to IMPRISON people with black skin.
Redlining laws are designed to protect oppressed people but the system still allows redlining.
Is it a coincidence more AA are dying from the virus statistically? That school systems are poorer in their communities?
BTW, if you reversed all this, the horror white people would visit on the land would make this look like a cub scout outing.
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ANY oppressed group, enslaved group, will likely have larger criminal record (Original Post)
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2020
OP
Example. NY distancing laws. 40 arrested. 35 of the 40 were black. During the open up protests.
LizBeth
Jun 2020
#1
Black communities have been aggressively over-policed since Jim Crow laws were enacted in the
sop
Jun 2020
#2
Exactly, the same crime I wont even get pulled over for in the first place, like speeding
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2020
#3
LizBeth
(11,222 posts)1. Example. NY distancing laws. 40 arrested. 35 of the 40 were black. During the open up protests.
sop
(17,927 posts)2. Black communities have been aggressively over-policed since Jim Crow laws were enacted in the
years following reconstruction. That over-policing policy continues to this day in many minority communities.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,282 posts)3. Exactly, the same crime I wont even get pulled over for in the first place, like speeding
could be the last day on earth if a POC does it.
