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Being real, I don't think there's as big a difference as you think. Read "The New Jim Crow", or look at anything BLM was mad about, policing in the US is extremely racialized.



I don't disagree that there's a big problem with the way Black people are treated by police and the criminal justice system in the US. In fact I think the prison system we currently have is pretty terrible and I want to see it reformed, having had three close (white) family members who've been in prison/jailed. I'm just pointing out that there's a big difference between a justice system that's systemically biased against a certain race, and a system that's explicitly put in place to target a certain race.




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