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Topic	Bill Maher on "white shame"
pls 09/28/19 9:14:18 PM #37:	Taharqa_ posted... pls posted... Black women get more lenient sentencing for the same crimes than white or Hispanic women. So you should reconsider your stance from being about "the mass incarceration of non-whites" because it's a lot more complicated than that. Those people from the 60s definitely had a hard time but I would say that anyone born in our generation had the same opportunities available regardless of race. Unless you live in Alabama or something. LOL https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/research-publications/2017/20171114_Demographics.pdf Black women get significantly more lenient sentencing than White men. Also, in most periods studied Hispanic men received similar or more lenient sentencing than White men. Why is this situation never construed as Black Female Privilege or Hispanic Male Privilege? Why is sentencing disparity always framed in terms of White privilege when Black women are better off than White women and when Hispanic men are usually better off than or comparable to White men? Why isn't that Hispanic privilege? It certainly used to be the case before the 90s that more black people were in the prison system at a much higher rate than any other race, but as crime has declined since 1990 so too have imprisonment rates gone down. (Not saying they can't go down further, just pointing out the progress) And as the war on drugs shifted from crack and marijuana to meth and opioids, arrests for those slowed as well. The crack epidemic in black communities waned while the meth and opioids epidemic in white communities has increased, causing arrests for drugs to increase in the white community and slow down in the black community. I'm all for ending the war on drugs and reducing the numbers further but at least we know that this imprisonment is happening as a result of doing a crime in the first place. (Horror stories about being framed aside) https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/12/15/a-mass-incarceration-mystery Is a white person who chooses to deal meth or opioids systemically prevented from having opportunities? --- Do good. Eat communists. <cite>pls posted [p:928080042] in Bill Maher... [t:78048774]...</cite> <quote>Taharqa_ posted...</cite> <quote>pls posted...</cite> <quote> Black women get more lenient sentencing for the same crimes than white or Hispanic women. So you should reconsider your stance from being about "the mass incarceration of non-whites" because it's a lot more complicated than that. Those people from the 60s definitely had a hard time but I would say that anyone born in our generation had the same opportunities available regardless of race. Unless you live in Alabama or something.</quote> LOL</quote> https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/research-publications/2017/20171114_Demographics.pdf Black women get significantly more lenient sentencing than White men. Also, in most periods studied Hispanic men received similar or more lenient sentencing than White men. Why is this situation never construed as Black Female Privilege or Hispanic Male Privilege? Why is sentencing disparity always framed in terms of White privilege when Black women are better off than White women and when Hispanic men are usually better off than or comparable to White men? Why isn't that Hispanic privilege? It certainly used to be the case before the 90s that more black people were in the prison system at a much higher rate than any other race, but as crime has declined since 1990 so too have imprisonment rates gone down. (Not saying they can't go down further, just pointing out the progress) And as the war on drugs shifted from crack and marijuana to meth and opioids, arrests for those slowed as well. The crack epidemic in black communities waned while the meth and opioids epidemic in white communities has increased, causing arrests for drugs to increase in the white community and slow down in the black community. I'm all for ending the war on drugs and reducing the numbers further but at least we know that this imprisonment is happening as a result of doing a crime in the first place. (Horror stories about being framed aside) https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/12/15/a-mass-incarceration-mystery Is a white person who chooses to deal meth or opioids systemically prevented from having opportunities? --- Do good. Eat communists.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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