Okay, White 'Murrica....

[paulpablo]

You missed the point, Paul. It is not just the cops. The whole system is rampant with racism.

Put it another way. Let's say Sarah Culhane was poor and black. Do you really think she would get the same deal from the D.A.?

Really?

I don't know, but it would be besides the point since what I'm saying is that there are other variables than race to consider, so the fact she wasn't poor may also have had something to do with it.

I get the point of what the websites are saying, they're using the case of one small rich white girl with no previous criminal convictions and how she was dealt with for a driving offense and comparing it to how a big black man from a non wealthy background was dealt with after committing a violent crime on foot.

I was just making my own point that it is propaganda. They highlight and select one variable, which is the skin colour of Sarah and Micheal, even though there are many other variables, different sex, height, weight, wealth and just general situation in which they were arrested.

They could have used a much more blatant case of someone even whiter and richer than Sarah Culhane for example this...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/12/the-...-accident/

I tend to think traffic violations that result in deaths are ALWAYS dealt with too leniently, no matter what background the person comes from.

For example in England this black man caused the death of 2 people and got jailed for 16 months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-man...r-21616296

It seems to happen quite a bit in the case of footballers in this country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coven...548840.stm

This white person was jailed for 6 years for doing the same thing and causing the death of 1 person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_McCorm...conviction

Luke McCormick another white person was jailed for 7 years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ailed.html

This black female was jailed for 2 years.

These cases are from England so they don't reflect how the American system works, but they're all traffic offenses with what I would consider to be fairly low sentences for causing the death of someone by reckless behavior, it happened purely by accident that in these cases I found the black people seem to be given lower sentences but I assume that's due to different circumstances in how the crime took place and not because their skin is a different colour.

I'm not goin to pretend I know all about racism within the American justice system, I'm not even American and I've never been there, I was just saying it looks like propaganda to me if an article selects one case, with many variables, but decides on the specific headline of "BLACK man shot to death, WHITE girl still alive and charges dropped."