Quote:I just ask that you not play Saria's Song near me. I hate that shit.

• You're more likely to be assaulted by a police officer if you're black/latino: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/punf0211.pdf  This is regardless of the amount of police interactions, i.e. not just because black/latino commit a disproportionate amount of crime.
  
  
• Blacks people receive sentences that are almost 19% longer than those of comparable whites arrested for the same crimes: https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/research-publications/2017/20171114_Demographics.pdf
  
  This is controlling for factors such as age, education, citizenship, weapon possession, and prior criminal histories.
  
  
• Judges are more likely to depart from sentencing guidelines to give a more lenient sentence towards whites, and also, less likely to give them jail time: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/320276
  
  
• A judge is less likely to grand you bail if you're black: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26999
  
  
• This is even true if you have higher rates of "pre-trial misconduct" by whites vs blacks. In other words, if you're black and keep your head down and play by the rules, you're still less likely to be granted bail. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Racial-Bias-in-Bail-Decisions-Arnold-Dobbie/b077f77a00e3d55bb59a38b6e23e4b1ef0775ada
  
  
• In traffic stops, police are more likely to search black/Hispanic drivers than white: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0858-1
  
  
• Blacks are also more likely to be given a traffic citation: https://people.ucsc.edu/~jwest1/articles/West_RacialBiasPolice.pdf
  
  
• If you're a minority, you're more likely to be stopped by a white cop, than a cop of the same race as you: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/322810. Vice versa is also true, but most cops are white, so who's getting the raw deal here?
  
  
• All-white juries are more likely to convict white people than black. This gap is eliminated if you get at least one black jury member. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/127/2/1017/1826107
  
  
• You're 2.5x more likely to be killed by a cop as a black man than a white man: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/killed-police-black-men-likely-white-men/
  • Usually the talking point that comes next is "well, black people statistically commit more violent crime, so of course it'd be disproportionate." While this may be true, there's also no correlation between violent crime and police killings: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854
    

(1st July 2020, 6:59 AM)Weltall Wrote: "All lives matter" is a phrase which is great in a vacuum, but its meaning is co-opted primarily by people who really don't believe it at all. Much in the same way American patriotism is most commonly attributed to people who hate and fear the majority of Americans. 

I feel that the left buys into this bullshit a little too much. The symbols of America should not be shunned, but reclaimed. Right wing reactionaries did not create this nation or contribute anything good or positive to it, ever. Let them have their stars and bars, because that's the flag which represents the misery and failure emblematic of their existence.