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Originally Posted by VillageLiberal
The Black Lives Matter protests are for Civil Rights. Civil rights, guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics. It's clear that black people and people of color are unfairly discriminated against, targeted, incarcerated, and/or killed. If you believe that people of color are inferior to white people, less educated, poor workers, more inclined to violence, need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, are sucking on the governments welfare tit, are drug dealers and pimps, then you are part of the problem perpetuating the oppression of equal rights of black people and people of color.
Black people and people of color are human beings who unfortunately get targeted by law enforcement more often than white folks because of systemic racism.
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Do you have any facts to support your claims of targeting? Numbers do NOT indicate intent or bias. They are an indicator to delve further into the situation, but unless the context is fully analyzed, it is not possible to tell if race was even A factor much less THE factor for the difference.
IF due to whatever, societal factors, people of color committed more of certain crimes than other races, would it be acceptable to you to incarcerate them at an equal rate to the commission rate?
Here is a statement I can support 100%... We as as society need to address the fact that the number of people of color in the prison population is hugely disproportionate to their population.
A statement I cannot get behind without any proof to support it is..."Black people and people of color ... get targeted by law enforcement more often than white folks because of systemic racism