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The problem is that the US doesn't pick random citizens to be on death row The point of your professor's analysis was not that black people were more likely to
by jackpirate 15y ago
The problem is that the US doesn't pick random citizens to be on death row
The point of your professor's analysis was not that black people were more likely to be convicted, but that we've created a society where black people are more likely to commit crime. This is still a very serious social problem, if not quite as serious as the hypothetical one you dismiss.
- mkramlich 15y agoMaybe the black people are committing the crime. Not society forcing them to. White people live in the same society. There are black people in Europe and Africa, etc. Lots of other explanations than concluding that US "society" (whatever that is) is forcing black people to commit crime.