But how else are those unable to relate to human beings in any meaningful way beyond their race going to get a stiffy?

Both parties tick off the more repugnant and kooky elements of their base with their own brand of divisive b0llocks. Biden will soon no doubt be crying out "reparations" with tears in his eyes while wearing a durag, and Trump will find about 5000 ways to say that Kamala Harris should 'go back' to Bombay or Kingston. All the fun of the fair.

It's a ridiculous moment. In our connected world, we have no control over the race of the family line anyway. Biology doesn't care about racial politics, and so it pays to keep a sane perspective on other people... else it gets a bit awkward at the dinner table.

Edited by BlueJay (15 Aug 2020 9.23pm)

Biden wrote the crime bill which has seen black people thrown in the nick for minimal offenses and because of constant references for small things they end up like Bronson going away for years for something stupid.

All on his own? Congress wasn't involved?

No bill targets colour. They target crime. It's the systemic racism of the police, often unrecognised by individual officers because it lies deep in society's psychology, that needs to be tackled as it's the disproportionate use of the law which is the problem. Not the law itself.

Sometimes the depths to which people sink to find mud to sling belies belief.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Are you saying that black people are unfairly being locked up?

I hear this a lot but the evidence that backs it up is a bit dodgy. For instance a white man in a suit is fined for cocaine whilst a black man goes to jail. What the critics don't take into account is if there is any previous. If the black man has a history of violent crime then then law will take that into account so it is not a valid comparison.

One more point

I am not.

I am saying that everyone, whatever their skin colour happens to be, has to be treated exactly the same. Whether they wear a suit also makes no difference. The problem is the prejudice that lies deep within us all which is largely unrecognised. It is part of our culture and is only now being identified as the problem it clearly is. The impact on behaviour extends into all the disparate communities that make up our society and no-one escapes. Solving it isn't going to be easy but accepting it exists is an essential first step.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Do you actually read what I write, or are you just unable to comprehend it?

I am not blaming the Police, individually or collectively. Playing the blame game is pointless. No-one is doing these things deliberately. What has gradually become understood is that our society, of which the Police are a part, has systemic built-in racist prejudice which impacts everything.

Most of us, whatever our backgrounds, are unaware of it but it is demonstrated in threads like these all the time.

The Police, being on the front line, are more often in the spotlight than most of us are.

It's not simply a question of who breaks the law gets punished. It's who gets targetted as suspects and who gets ignored because of inbuilt prejudices. It's about the way suspects are handled and whether cases get brought in front of Judges or allowed to walk away with warnings.

Biden did not, could not and would not write any such law. That politically he might have supported or even sponsored something is an entirely different issue which would need to be seen in the context that prevailed at the time.

For the umpteenth time. I am not a "leftie". I have no sympathy at all for left-wing politics. I am a social democrat who believes in justice for all. I am not a reactionary advocate of right-wing
politics.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.