He doesn't want to discuss that. He wants to justify it by deflecting the question and retreating to his safe enclave of "let me Google some shit to try to prove a point when the numbers have never backed my stance". It's his go to response.
I don't think they're preventable. There are core reasons why people commit acts of violence. 1) Money 2) Crime of passion (IE walking in on your wife with another man) 3) Hatred - which to me is a byproduct of something else. If you are willing to kill someone because they're black or they're trans or a Jew or whatever, there's something deeper wrong with you. I'm sure there are plenty of racists out there that would never kill or harm someone..... they're just racist pieces of shit and they judge people based on their skin, but that doesn't make them take the jump to violence. It's the same with school shooters. Millions upon millions of people are bullied every year, but only a few will pick up a gun or a knife and lash out. So to me, there's just crazy pieces of shit who harm others, whether it's because they're another color, or they're gay, or whatever...... there's no fixing that person. They are broken. I am 100% certain that you can cure racism, but you can't cure crazy. In the past, these crazy fucks would go off to war and die on some battle field. We weeded out the nutjobs because there was a place to send them. This is probably the longest sustained period of peace that we as a race have ever had. Yes, we've had conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan, but we haven't had a major world war that killed millions since the 40s. I personally think that's why we have seen so many shootings and violence. Those people would have been drafted and sent overseas where they could kill to their hearts content, and they'd probably die in combat.
Right so instead of fighting inequality, DO SOMETHING TO FUCKING HELP!! That says very plainly that you know what's happening, you know you don't want it for you, I want to know why you're so willing to accept it or to allow it to happen for others. - Jane Elliott
OJ Had money. They still took it all and put him in prison for taking his own possessions back. I Bottom line Dave Chappelle was right. It's only funny because it's true. Denying it really just helps sweep the problem under the rug. :
This. If he were black the police would have shot him probably. Unless he was rich and black...that'd be interesting. If there were no affluenza component he would have gotten a long sentence. Its ridiculous that because this guy is rich he gets to use that as an excuse. Killing people is killing people...we all know better regardless of how much money we have.
Don't know about the "we", but I sure don't want any of the, black cloud, turd kicking. low attitude you have.
The thing is that I don't want black kids to get the same easy sentence, I want the white kid to get what he deserved. That doesn't help you any other than feeling that things are fair. Tell me how to make it happen and I'll help put white dui kids behind bars until they're 21. Lemme know how.
Millions of people have driven drunk and got away with it. Millions. I ran from the cops doing 100 plus in a 35 two decades ago and got away with it. If I'd have killed someone I would have gotten the book thrown at me. A white high school friend ran from the cops on the freeway and spent an actual year in prison when he was 19. He did more time than this kid got and he didn't kill anyone. We've all done stupid things and the fact that this kid got off easy doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme, it's an outlier
Only that it's not. http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/ Incarceration Trends in America Between 1980 and 2015, the number of people incarcerated in America increased from roughly 500,000 to over 2.2 million. Today, the United States makes up about 5% of the world’s population and has 21% of the world’s prisoners. 1 in every 37 adults in the United States, or 2.7% of the adult population, is under some form of correctional supervision. Racial Disparities in Incarceration In 2014, African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population. African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites. The imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that of white women. Nationwide, African American children represent 32% of children who are arrested, 42% of children who are detained, and 52% of children whose cases are judicially waived to criminal court. Though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprised 56% of all incarcerated people in 2015. If African Americans and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates as whites, prison and jail populations would decline by almost 40%. Drug Sentencing Disparities In the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 17 million whites and 4 million African Americans reported having used an illicit drug within the last month. African Americans and whites use drugs at similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of African Americans for drug charges is almost 6 times that of whites. African Americans represent 12.5% of illicit drug users, but 29% of those arrested for drug offenses and 33% of those incarcerated in state facilities for drug offenses. Effects of Incarceration A criminal record can reduce the likelihood of a callback or job offer by nearly 50 percent. The negative impact of a criminal record is twice as large for African American applicants. Infectious diseases are highly concentrated in corrections facilities: 15% of jail inmates and 22% of prisoners – compared to 5% of the general population – reported ever having tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, or other STDs. In 2012 alone, the United States spent nearly $81 billion on corrections. Spending on prisons and jails has increased at triple the rate of spending on Pre‐K‐12 public education in the last thirty years.
