In order to defend this thesis, Kendi cites Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse, both of whom were charged with murder? $10 million please. 
I also think if you have Kendi's philosophy and you can justify any sweeping statement just by a statistical stereotype, you can't honestly include men in this thesis. Men have it worse than women in the CJ system at every level. It's not a privilege to be a man in prison.
It doesn't mean you just get away with crimes if you're white as Kendi suggests, but there is generally a little bit of a bias towards white folks in many aspects of criminal justice. However, there is also a lot of bias against men. law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/fe…
You also have to look up clearance rates for various times of crimes, you can see plenty of people from all backgrounds get away with crime, that's more about the inadequacy of policing than just a clear bias in one way or another. murderdata.org
It's also true that if something is true on average (the criminal justice system is slightly biased in favor of whites and biased against men) that an individual case featured bias. But Kendi's evidence is some anecdotes (which don't even back up his argument to begin with).
I see a lot of: "Oh this person got off because they were white." Well you'd have to investigate the individual case and see if that is what happened, every case is different even if on average white folks get lighter sentences. Have to look at judge, jury, DA, etc.
I think this is the problem with Kendi's work writ large, it's anti-intellectual. He starts with a thesis, grabs some anecdotes to justify it (in this case he picked anecdotes that don't even fir the thesis). Intellectual work requires being open to any outcome based on facts..
And above all else -- Rittenhouse got into a dispute with 3 other angry white guys.... What the heck does that have to do with "white male supremacy"? Just because he (and they) were white? That's just classical racism dressed up as something more profound.
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