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Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry
Quit ignoring the point.
Again minorities are arrested for drug offenses at much higher rates even though the use between whites and minorities are similar.
Are you saying that's not racist?
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No it's absolutely not proof of racism. Absolutely not. It might be racism if only White cops arrested Black drug dealers & users. Since there's nothing to suggest that's the case or that Black cops arrest Black drug dealers at a lower rate, then no, it's not racism.
Furthermore, you're ignoring all the obvious variables involved in those numbers:
- If I smoke weed in my garage after my kids go to sleep & you smoke a weed at the playground in front of the kids, we're both committing drug offenses, but one of us is doing it in the privacy of his own home and one of us is doing it in public. Obviously one of us is going to be MUCH more likely to get arrested for the same violation. That's common sense.
- In my extremely diverse neighborhood, there's not a day that goes by that I don't see Black people (usually teens) walking in the middle of the street smoking a big stinky blunt, smoke billowing, cigar smell wafting down the block. The White people I know who smoke, hit the bong in their house a couple times and then go out. Again common sense tells you one is MUCH more likely to be caught than the other, but technically both are "drug users".
- Even the White people I know that do partake in public use a smokeless vaporizer or a smokeless one-hitter, so small it can be palmed if the cops round the corner. Obviously the guy walking down the street, smoke wafting from the blunt is more likely to be caught than a guy who hits a smokeless vaporizer or smokeless one-hitter the size of a cigarette. Common sense, not racism.
- Then there's the people smoking in their cars
. Literally, every-single-day I smell weed at red lights. It's NEVER been a White guy. It's ALWAYS a Black guy, windows down, music blasting, smoking weed while driving and making sure to let everyone know they don't give a f*ck. It's actually an ongoing joke in my neighborhood. We see these guys and joke "Is he TRYING to get arrested?".
- The there's the drug dealing. A White guy who discretely sells weed to his friends from his home or work is not equivalent to a guy working a drug corner, in a known drug neighborhood. Simply not the same at all.
- The cops go into the known gang/drug neighborhood which happens to be 99% Black and they arrest the gang members and drug dealers on the corners. Then people like you accuse them of being racists for arresting Black people, even though everyone in the neighborhood is Black and not everyone got arrested.
- Back in the days we used to drive to the University of Chicago once a month to visit a High School friend. Due to our work schedules we'd arrive about 4am and have to drive through the South Side of Chicago to get to the U of C. We got pulled over virtually every single time because we were profiled. Two White guys and an Asian driving through that neighborhood at 4am scream "We're here to score drugs" to the cops. Never once did I scream racism, despite it being obvious we were being pulled over due to racial profiling. The cops, for the most part (because there is the odd racist or criminal on the force) know the neighborhoods the police and they know what to look for.