Reading an excellent book by this guy.
How We Define Violent Crime in America Shapes Who Gets Punished for It—And Who Doesn't time.com/5952785/violen…
How We Define Violent Crime in America Shapes Who Gets Punished for It—And Who Doesn't time.com/5952785/violen…
In it he includes an observation from someone else that in American justice, white people commit violent acts but Black people are violent. In essence, we see crimes committed by whites in context of circumstances but as character defect in Black people
That's why a white guy can pull over, Park, run across the grass, and assault a reporter and just be wacky and his assault is described as confronting.
White people forage, Black people loot. Circumstances excuse white crime. Black criminality is innate. And these racist ideas we never examine undergird mass incarceration
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