The system is designed to uphold and maintain inequality, including racial inequality.

Liberals started the Drug War, the idea of broken-windows policing and the PATRIOT Act?

Yeah, wow, blacks commit more crime. Hard to figure it out, huh?

Blacks resist cops more, leading to more serious outcomes and oh yes, the old lib chestnut. Sorry, bub, when blacks had committed previous crime, they DO get longer sentences for the same crime. Sorry, that's the same for everyone.

I'll see you at your next cope. Try to work on that 13% commits half the murders and violent crime thing.

Being more likely to get arrested, convicted, and sentenced to more time are not necessarily reflective of number of crimes committed.

In fact, at least till 2017, more 'Whites' than 'Blacks' were arrested for capital crimes, but 'Blacks' were more likely to get convicted. Sentencing also displays the same pattern.

'Cumulative' records are not justification for getting shot while getting arrested either, nor warrants more energy focused on seeking whomever in order to arrest them.

It's basic Psych101 that jurors display a racial bias, and that that same bias effects treatment from police officers to prosecutors and judges, journalists and the general public as well.

So you think the prison system is run to systemically oppress black people and create racial inequality? Today? Wouldn't Jussie Smollett be imprisoned for his obvious fraud? Juror biases aside, which would then go both ways.

Oh cool! My favorite part, mind reading from someone reading their own mind and saying it's mine because my brain is ginormously big enough for the both of us!

As you already know - Smollet in fact being the second example you can cite where you can vouch for me on this - I deal in facts, not opinions, partisan agendas, team fanfics, what I'm thinking as I click my ruby reds together guzzling Red Pill Kool Aid or whatever the frig, or what I thought when I was 15 and yadda yadda.

Smollet is rich, a celebrity, connected, known, young & attractive, and has much sympathy & support from the public at large, leading to a rather BIG factor in all this that is either too obvious for folks to see or just takes the air of the 'the two sides' readying to duke it out, and that is there is something of a correlation between socio-economic class and social status and OJ not getting his dark toned ass shot after wasting a few hours of LAPD's time chasing him around.
If Dwight Wilson tried that in Compton we all know what the vid would be showing on the news at 11 - him 'assaulting' the boots and batons of cops with his horizontal body on the street for 20 mins.

Would Zsa Zsa Gabor have gotten shot when she slapped that cop in Beverly Hills if she was Darlene 'Crackjob' Spencer from Joey Cap's Trailer Park in Pigbutt, Arkansas? Tyrone 'Mustapha' Jackson from the projects in the Bronx?

Google "slaps cop vids" and see what turns up. Then come back and tell me how many of them involved possible cousins of George Floyd.

That's what his meme is claiming. Not arguing the validity of the points you made. Yes, I was going to address the wealth class issue. Yet the meme doesn't address that. People think the LA cops that patrol Hollywood are going to say, oh gee, this elite black Hollywood celeb is black so we better Rodney King him? Please.

It could be something as basic as the fact that poorer people are perceived as easier to get away with doing stuff to, as it's not just certain races or ethnicities, but drug addicts and homeless, for example, from poor areas getting the same shitty treatement regardless of skin tone.

Murderers, rapists, Mafia, the richer, higher profile criminals, practically get the red carpet treatment in comparison when arrested. They're usually treated better, processed quicker and more carefully, etc, because the system doesn't want to risk blowing the case and having them set free, and because they don't want to chance getting sued either.

A homeless druggie, in comparison, gets "resisting arrest" tacked on to their charges to cover for the bruises acquired during arrest, and their court appointed public defendent who gets paid by the same system that pays the cops and judges gets them to agree to a plea deal so they can get home sooner and that is that till the next time because they have no other options.

Yes, the legal system likes things that are easy. Quick cases and the like. Like David Keith said In Platoon, 'the poor are always getting f**ked over by the rich. Always have, always will'.

In NYC it is widely believed that cops have quotas, unofficial, of course, as they deny it. Arresting people less likely to afford good attorneys for small stuff is an easy way to fill it. The rumor also applies to traffic tickets.

hahaha, probably sanitation too, as my pa doesn't get tickets here at the house (nice residential type neighborhood) he himself gets like confetti at his office, although that's in a more congested area subject to more littering.
But my former landlord got tickets simply for people placing garbage bags on their own out too early. Yet my pa does it all the time (he's getting old and doesn't listen), but no tickets.
Same happened to a friend near where I lived, he had to check garbage the tenants he rented a room to put out because he'd get tickets for them mixing recyclable cans, etc, with regular trash (which we're supposed to separate).

Or was that Keith David. Those two always confused me. Damned 80's movies

They both great too. Would have been awesome a movie starring both of them!

Yeah, it would have. Like Piper and Keith in that Carpenter movie. The whole movie could just be them getting confused for each other

Preferably without that 26 minute fight scene,,,

Yeah, that did get tiresome a little quickly. I get he was a wrestler but still...

Well at least we get the chance to go make a sandwich without having to hit pause...

Still not sure how Smollett, in the most racially tense time since last century, cuz of Hitler being president and all, getting away with such a provocative fraud and suffering no penalties, can indicate a deeply racist society, like OP is making out.

Because Smellitt is so saaaaaaaad, he meant noooooooo harm....

It's like the Tawana Brawley fiasco in the mid 80s I had told you about back with the Smollet thing, it was this whole big day after day deal with so many involved that by the time it popped, there were too many that would have gone down with her in that folded circus, at least reputation wise, so everyone got embarrassed and just walked away.
Except Sharpton and Jesse 'Blood on My Shirt' Jackson, who went on milking that faked racist attack long after the teats ran dry because that was their career.

Not saying this disproves what the OP is stating, though claiming that "The system is designed to uphold and maintain inequality" is stretching it.
There may be lingering patterns from the past, some things people may not be so conscious of, some being aspects of a bigger picture with other factors such as the socio-economic that I mentioned, or as you mentioned, higher rates of crime in some areas might meet with higher rates of certain responses...

Oversymplification will only serve to narrow the manner these issues are approached, and thus limit potential remedies. Turning it into a basic "us vs them" may do little more than antagonize people, exacerbating the problem[s].

Yep and oversimplification is why I said anything. Especially since I know a bit of this posters history. I doubt any system is perfect but it ain't Jim Crow anymore. Black people are in the same state as in the 60's economic wise? I guess you gotta hand it to those guys back in the 60s that did it without affirmative action.

There are more black people in state prisons than white people.

I guess crime doesn't pay, huh? In case you missed it

African-Americans are more likely to be exonerated of homicidal crimes and are overrepresented in false convictions. They are more likely to be convicted of crimes that whites are often able to get dismissed or enter into pleas pretrial. Police also are funded to patrol minority and dominantly black neighborhoods.

And they are FAR more likely to commit murder. See meme. Are they brainwashed by whitey to kill?

Most homicide cases never find the perpetrator. And African-Americans are falsely convicted of it all the time. Violence also plagues black and low-income communities, which is a direct response to social inequality and criminalization and policing of their neighborhoods. If African-Americans commit more crime than or disproportionate to their white counterparts, it is because of their economic disparity and deprivation of opportunities.

Absolutely bullshit. Poor communities of non blacks have nowhere near the level of crime. Just another excuse. Yeah, again, police in a neighborhood makes people commit crime. Sure.

I don’t think gangs know any color. Young people of all races enter the criminal justice system, too. Police presence makes gangs stronger and keeps underground economies unsafe and violent, and of course they are going to find crime where they are patrolling. This seems very difficult for you to understand. Maybe stop scapegoating black people.

You know lots of Chinese in MS-13?

This seems very difficult for you to understand. Maybe stop apologizing and deflecting for criminals. No one is saying all black people fall into that category.

13%. Rounded down that's 10%. Yet 50% of murders. Gee. Must be systemic raycisssssssssssm.

So they commit 50% of murders because they’re black, right? I’m assuming that’s your argument?

Yet you think the greatest threat to America are those that are underrepresented by crime? I'll wait.

I’m not afraid of anyone, especially because of their race or nationality.

I’m not afraid of black people. Are you?

No, but you are of whites lol

'wait, a mere 13% commits half the violent crimes yet you bring it up? Raaayycccciiisss.'

Before slavery was “abolished”, correctional institutions in the south were dominantly white. After emancipation, black people quickly made up the majority. The system has always targeted black people. Ever read The New Jim Crow?

Welcome to the 21st century.

The drug war has resulted in the arrests of millions of African-Americans, who consume illicit drugs at about the same rate as white people. Because of the drug war, one-third of African-American youth is on probation or parole or in prison.

Haha, yeah, because of the drug war. 33% of blacks, huh? Shame every last one is innocent. No priors with that as well, huh?

Most people arrested for drug crimes arrested for mere possession. The police know African-Americans are easy targets for them.