Baby This is Ignition! - Ampers&d's BASE 2.1 Journal

[Ampersnd]

I've just recently taken a keen interest in American politics and the issues going on there at the moment (I'm Australian). The facts are pretty insane and very different to the mainstream media narrative that is so commonly accepted. I've definitely had my eyes opened on a lot of things...

I understand where you're coming from in regards to your black friend, especially when you see some of the backlash from BLM supporters calling people racist and white supremacists for merely stating statistics. The truth can be ugly and difficult to swallow, but it's still the truth and it will ultimately set you free

As a black man, I hate when other black men use the racist cards for trivial things. It happens a lot. That said, I will have to repeat what Dan's friend said: "You wouldn't know unless you're black".

In recent years, there have been stories of convicts cleared of their crimes with the help of new DNA based evidences. A majority of these former convicts are African Americans (http://www.innocenceproject.org/dna-exon...ed-states/). How do you explain this? I believe there are many more innocent people in prison who make up this "statistics".

To answer the bold part, it grates me a bit, as you're making a claim to special knowledge; you claim to know the black experience, as well as the white experience, and that you can compare the two in your head, whereas I merely have my measly white experience, with no insight into the black experience. This is why I prefer statistics, because human experience is numerically condensed, and we're not throwing anecdotes at one another.

To answer the italicized part, I like the numbers, but it seems a bit incomplete. This page rightly focuses on those exonerated for crimes that people did not commit. At the same time, it's impossible to know the number of people who remain in jail, despite their innocence. This is because every one of these innocent people - currently in jail - would require an investigation to prove their innocence, and if they're found to be innocent, they would likely be exonerated. Who's to say that there aren't more white people in jail, who could be exonerated, but haven't been? It could also be black people, though (I'm no expert). This reminds me a bit of the 'To Make a Murderer' show, which I haven't watched.

Anyhow, I dare not say that the legal system is great, let alone perfect, but the strategy used by Democrats to label all police activity as racially biased or discriminatory is not only counterproductive, but rather evil, as it forces an entire group of Americans (i.e. Black Americans) into a state of being in which they anticipate that the administers of justice (i.e. the police) are not at all interested in justice, but rather more interested in victimizing the members of their group.