• MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Funny how you’re claiming it’s actually everyone else who’s racist when you immediately think of race when people talk about convicted felons.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Understanding demographics is not racist. Black men are convicted and incarcerated more often than anyone else in this country because our justice system is weighted against them.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Not when you understand the disproportionate incarceration of black people for the same crimes. Like how the war on drugs made lot of drug crimes felonies with the intention of disenfranchising the black population through unequal enforcement. Plus Jim Crow laws and everything else that disproportionately punishes black folks based on criminal history.

        Understanding history is why we know racism is a major component of anything that removes the right to vote.

        • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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          2 years ago

          Understanding history is why we know racism is a major component of anything that removes the right to vote.

          More like you’re just grasping at straws to connect entirely disconnected events since you have no actual position to argue from an honest perspective

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      2 years ago

      Careful, there’s very little that separates you from those you wish to disenfranchise.

      You might want to check out Anthony Ray Hinton’s The Sun Does Shine for a memoir of what it’s like to be wrongfully sentenced to prison for nearly 30 years all because your friend was mad at you over a girl.

      There’s also the case of Crystal Mason who’s in prison, right now, despite comitting no crime.

      Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice by Pulitzer prize winner Tony Messenger is a more comprehensive book, but one that I think every US citizen should read before defending the status quo.

      Criminal justice reform is extraordinarily difficult in the US because citizens with first hand experience are disenfranchised. Everyone affected by society should have an equitable voice in society - there should be no disenfranchised underclass.

    • pakrat@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      You do realize, this is a classic Jim Crow technique to surpress votes from those you don’t want to vote. For exampl, you could make it a felony to be late for a rent but then the county only choses to prosecute people of color, but gives “grace” to white tenants.

      • TechyDad@lemmy.world
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        They also chose crimes that can be pinned on black people whether or not they did them.

        For example, drugs. Want to take out a black person that’s “causing trouble?” Just arrest them and conveniently find drugs in their house. Maybe the person really knows that you planted them, but who’s the white judge going to believe? The black man or the white police officer? The black man is now a convicted felon, behind bars. Even if he’s released, he still can’t vote anymore.

        Repeat a few dozen more times and you can stop black people from “causing trouble” just with the constant threat of arrest hanging over their heads.