Systemic Racism? Make Them Prove It. - Andrew McCarthy

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By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY September 19, 2020

Progressives say racism is everywhere in the criminal-justice system, but they don’t provide many specifics.

I worked in the criminal-justice system for a quarter century. It is run, day-to-day, by the crème de la crème of graduates from America’s top law schools. Those institutions wear their progressive bona fides on their sleeves and proclaim it for all the world to hear.

In their offhand rhetoric — insouciant, because they know their bien pensant allies in politics and media will never call them on it — legal elites will tell you that the administration of justice in America is systemically racist. But they are the system. The judges, the top prosecutors, the defense bar, the experts who craft the sentencing guidelines and the standards of confinement — overwhelmingly, they are political progressives.

That’s fine. I’m a lawyer from New York City. I’ve not only lived in and around this world for decades, I have affection for lots of its denizens. Most of them are proud of being on the left. I don’t agree with them politically, but the routine handling of criminal cases is not political. It is clinical: professionals doing the best they can.
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Progressives say racism is everywhere in the criminal-justice system, but they don’t provide many specifics.
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The undeniable racism of the 18th and 19th century has left an eternal legacy on the psyche of America but also the Western world. It is undeniable and inescapable.

Have politicians used this to further their own agenda? Obviously. Does that mean that racism is a non issue- and e.g. doesn’t exist in any form within the establishments? No.
 
 
WingedHussar said:
Ah yes, racism is a spooky invisible force that possesses black people and makes them commit crimes. That dog don’t hunt.
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I didn’t see you offering any counter explanation. Are blacks inherently more inclined to crime? Is it all their fault? Or is it all the fault of the Democrats? Either way, it is strongly correlated to race. That’s racism.
 
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Regular_Atheist said:
Just look at the representation of black Americans in US prisons and in crime statistics. What more needs to be said?
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There is a distinct, mainstream, culture of glorifying crime, guns, drugs, and violence among African-American men.

You can find it to a lesser extent in other ethnicities, but it isn’t nearly so defining, pervasive, and mainstream as it is among African-Americans. . . . It’s a self-defeating cycle.
 
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I agree, but I don’t think it’s purely cultural or divorced from issues of poverty. The fact is that lots of middle class white young men are enamoured with music like that and don’t end up joining gangs. Cultures which view life as cheap and expendable tend to be conditioned by material circumstances which make life cheap and expendable.
 
I can’t believe that we are still having these discussions.

America has had it’s foot on the necks of Black people for centuries. It didn’t magically end with Brown V. Topeka or the civil rights act.

First, it was keeping Blacks “in their place”, which reduced or eliminated educational and economic opportunities for generations of people. Now, it’s perpetuating the discrimination by believing they belong in that place White society made for them, because they don’t want to do any better.
 
Yes, a black man was elected President two times but we are so racist. 🥺
 
WingedHussar said:
Occam’s razor, they freely choose to commit more crimes.
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Therefore they freely choose to have 1/9 the wealth of their white counterparts? That is not the “simplest and most reasonable” explanation because it is not even the least bit reasonable. Why don’t white people chose to live in poverty in such great numbers? Are they morally superior? Or are they just in power?
 
Do you think that high crime rates might affect the economic opportunities available to them? Does everything just happen in a vacuum except for “systemic racism”?
 
If you really have this perspective on social issues then it isn’t worth discussing with you. Anyone who wants to reduce wide social issues to the banality of “individual choice” should not be allowed to speak, honestly.
Do you think that high crime rates might affect the economic opportunities available to them?
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Of course it does. It is a self-perpetuating system. But the fact is that a segment of society has to be relegated to poverty, that is a condition of capitalism. It just so happens that, in America, this largely falls on African-Americans.
 
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This is so interesting.

Why is the acceptance of racism in the US split down political lines?
 
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Do you think that high crime rates might affect the economic opportunities available to them? Does everything just happen in a vacuum except for “systemic racism”?
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But you still have not explained the higher crime rates. If you say it is because on average they choose crime more often than whites, you are making a racist statement, not unlike the eugenics claims of the 1930s where some believed that blacks were inherently less intelligent. If that is your position, just come out and say so.
 
No,

Racism is the belief that black people are inherently more predisposed to crime.

If you think that, you’ll be more on the lookout for black people committing crime and as a result catch more of them. Thus reinforcing that belief.
 
Let’s look at the Southwest, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas for example. (I don’t know enough to speak on Colorado and Utah really.)

We know, if you were to look at the prison population, curiously enough, we know who is the majority. We know too that Hispanics are among the top leaders, political leaders. Some involved in business, medicine and so on. So, it’s an interesting comparison.
 
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