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[In 2013] about 10% of the population over 12 years of age had used illegal drugs in the previous year, and that this use was more or less evenly distributed across the largest racial groups: 8.8% for Hispanics, 9.5% for whites and 10.5% percent for African Americans.
Convictions for drug crimes are another matter entirely. Thirty-three percent of those serving prison terms for drug offenses are African Americans, two-and-a-half times their proportion in the population. [...] Overall African Americans are about five times as likely to go to prison for drug possession as whites, and judging from exonerations, innocent black people are about 12 times more likely to be convicted of drug crimes than innocent white people.
[...] Sixty percent of the drug exonerations we know about occurred in Harris County, Texas, home to Houston (133/221). The defendants in these cases pled guilty to drug possession before the supposed drugs they possessed were tested in a crime lab, and were exonerated weeks, months or years later after testing was done and no illegal drugs were found. Why did these defendants plead guilty even though they possessed no controlled substances? Some may have had powders or pills that they thought contained illegal drugs but did not. As far as we can tell, however, most pled guilty to get out of jail.
[...] Most, if not all of these innocent black defendants in Harris County pled guilty rather than go to trial because it was their best option, given that they had been arrested and charged, and were held in jail. But why were so many innocent black defendants arrested for drug possession when there is no reason to believe that African Americans are more likely than whites to use illegal drugs?
Two-thirds of the arrests in the Harris County guilty-plea exoneration cases (89/133) were based on cheap and notoriously inaccurate "presumptive" field tests for drugs, usually on substances found in searches following traffic stops. Anybody who is subjected to that process is at risk of false arrest and conviction. Across the country, African Americans drivers are about as likely to be stopped as white drivers, but after that, they are three times as likely to be searched. As a result, they bear much of the brunt of drug-law enforcement—including false drug possession convictions, which may number in the thousands if not tens of thousands a year.
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_and_Wrongful_Convictions.pdf
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday March 12 2017, @02:01PM (3 children)
Excellent rationalization. The world is just.
Its hard to figure out the original logical fallacies because there are so many in the summary. Its like the whole wikipedia page came to visit.
Your specific logical fallacy is "Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies [wikipedia.org]
Aside from the small scale argument this is a classic example of macro vs micro. Why all the focus on the micro-injustice, which admittedly is micro-interesting, when the macro problem is so much more interesting?
At the macro level, no one would disagree with the idea that neighborhoods are better when they have fewer criminals and laws are enforced, that most neighborhoods in the country are racially segregated to some extent. So if you assume all the propositions in the article ... black kids are being unfairly rewarded by growing up in neighborhoods with unfairly lower crime than white kids, because black criminals are being segregated from society in prison FAR more than white criminals are, to the extreme that innocent blacks are going to prison while criminal whites are at home screwing up their neighborhoods and screwing up the next generation of white kids. That seems rather unfair to white people, especially our most vulnerable such as kids, who did nothing wrong yet have to grow up in a den of white neighborhood criminality, whereas the black kids are growing up in a crime free paradise where all the criminals, plus a little extra, are all in prison far away from society, unable to ruin future black culture. Won't anyone think of the (white) children?
In summary the article points out the justice system in Texas is intensely anti-white because criminal activity levels are constant by race (um... OK) and Texas is not policing the white community which therefore must be absolutely overrun with white crime, compared to the tranquil, safe and heavily police enforced black communities.
The article is highly racist because it implies some basic human biological differences exist in that white folk and black folk seem to respond to law enforcement pressure racially differently, despite as the article claims being equally criminal in desire and private action. The article is white supremacist in that it implies whites are smarter so they don't get caught and don't poop where they sleep WRT ruining their own neighborhoods, while implying that decades of evolutionary selection pressure STILL haven't taught the blacks a single lesson and they're still getting busted on a regular basis, the article is implying a genetic biological racial IQ difference.
The implied macro level conclusions of the article seem rather fascist by SN standards or any standards. Well, reality does have built in political biases, but still...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @04:44PM (1 child)
implying that decades of evolutionary selection pressure STILL haven't taught the blacks a single lesson and they're still getting busted on a regular basis, the article is implying a genetic biological racial IQ difference
Yep, I knew it. The world is just.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @05:59PM
implying that decades of evolutionary selection pressure STILL haven't taught the blacks a single lesson and they're still getting busted on a regular basis, the article is implying a genetic biological racial IQ difference
Yep, I knew it. The world is just.
... and VLM is a fucking racist who finds justification for his racism where ever he looks.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 12 2017, @07:14PM
> implying that decades of evolutionary selection pressure STILL haven't taught the blacks a single lesson and they're still getting busted on a regular basis, the article is implying a genetic biological racial IQ difference
Jesus motocrossing Christ. We GET it, you're an irredeemable husk of a human being who's sunk so low you'd need to say "Sir" to a snake's gut in a wagon rut. Enough already; you're run out of anything new or original to say. Now you're just getting boring.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...