SecretMethod70

Now that is a cop-out. Institutions are made up of individuals. Regardless of whether or not it's explicit or conscious, if the justice system is filled with so many racist individuals in a position of power, it is a de facto institutional problem.

And bringing up black on black crime as an excuse for racial disparities in the application of justice is no different than saying blacks are simply morally inferior to whites. Aside for that, I'm not sure how who seels the drugs has anything to do with the simple fact that crack cocaine has an unnecessarily more severe prison sentence than powdered cocaine. The result of this, regardless of who sold the cocaine, is that poor cocaine addicts receive sentences that are unnecessarily more severe than more wealthy cocaine addicts. Finally, since black Americans are disproportionately poor, black Americans are the most effected by this.

The fact that you don't understand that something can have a result which is unjust without explicitly intending to be so baffles me.

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