An Interesting Take on BLM

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HOW JUDGES THINK ABOUT RACIAL DISPARITIES

That article only seems to bolster my alleged point of view;

Judges structure the daily routines of the court system (Eisenstein and Jacob, 1977; Feeley, 1992 [1981]) and make final determinations of admissible evidence, trial pacing, and sentencing within a system that allows for judicial discretion (Abrams, Bertrand, and Mullainathan, 2012; Banakar and Travers, 2013; Spohn, 2009). Observed disparities at sentencing that cannot be explained by legal or other nonracial factors have largely been understood to be the result of judges’ differential racial treatment (Spohn, 2000).

Again, do you consider most judges to be racist? The article tries hard to spin this as the judges being fed intel from various sources along the food chain;

Decision-making among court officials results from a collective process, whereby the choices of prosecutors and defense attorneys are mutually constitutive and influence judicial decision-making (Eisenstein and Jacob, 1977; Klepper, Nagin, and Tierney, 1983; Ulmer, 1997).

And even ends with this conclusion;

Our findings should inform legal scholarship and normative political debates about racial inequality. With respect to American jurisprudence, in particular, court officials and other political and legal actors should continue to debate when and how the disparate impact of poverty, segregation, and discrimination prior to contact with the criminal justice system should be considered in decision-making within the system (Delgado, 1985). More broadly, everyday social actors should consider how and under what conditions accounting for personal bias alone is or is not sufficient for countering disparity-producing social processes.

So, the writers are basically saying that judges aren't effectively doing their jobs in America due to being spoon-fed both jaded and opinionated information from others whom don't keep the black sub-cultural financial or segregation issues in mind when advising the judge. They [authors] completely neglect to delve into what this experienced judge said in their conclusion;

Finally, one judge we interviewed posited that some minorities have a cultural attraction to being part of the system as if it were a badge of honor. Judge 121, a minority female who generally believes that racial disparities are a function of differential treatment within the court system, told us: “[T]here seems to be almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy for a lot of young Black men . . . that it is OK to go to [jail], that it is a badge of honor. . . . Sometimes they want to go because that’s where their best friend is.” Some sociological accounts of inner-city life lend evidence to support such an affinity to delinquent behavior among young minority men (Anderson, 1999), given the concentrated disadvantage of their neighborhoods.

This isn't the judge being jaded and saying to herself, "all blacks must want to go to jail." That's insane and untrue and if you believe that, then I honestly don't know what to tell you. Judges will weigh each instance on a case by case basis and when a defendant shows no remorse for their actions, they'll deliver a fitting sentence. It really is that simple, so the big question here is why is this particular sub-culture of America coming into the criminal justice system with such a big chip on their shoulders? I know Archon-Wing will disagree with me on this wholeheartedly as a tactless "blame the victim" type of banter, but I digress, I believe there is a positive message to be heard here, one spoken by the girl in the video I first posted, and one that can potentially fix this issue not just here in America, but anywhere in the world where there is a sub-culture stuck in a rut of destructive behavior, and a society so entrenched in denial about it due to guilt, that they fail completely to address its core issues and instead try to band-aid it with handouts.