July 8, 2000 at 12:00 am #16947
LSA
Participant
Ask first why African Americans are subjected to a disproportionate amount of joblessness, poverty and racial discrimination, which tends to create a climate for crime. Then ask why African Americans are subjected to racial profiling, a disproportionate number of false police stops and searches, false arrests, false convictions and wrongful executions. And ask then if there are crimes that whites tend to commit that aren’t treated as harshly as similar crimes that blacks tend to commit.