| Incorrect, I have lived in many poor places, grew up poor and in a very racist part of Colorado. (I'm white) I now live in a nice area and am no longer poor. I can tell you from personal experience that cops are much nicer to white people All the time. The worst white trash human being is still white and when confronted with arresting a white person or a black person, white people go free. Even after you're arrested and put in jail when you go to court with all the inmates on the docket that day you will see harsher sentences for any non white person, and what essentially is a slap on the wrist for the white people. Just go to your local court and sit in for a day, you will leave deflated and unimpressed by our judicial system. Sure they'll put white people in jail but listen to the charges and you will see firsthand that although someone who is not white has 4 priors and gets sent away for a year, a white guy who comes in on his 10th, but has a suit on, and a lawyer might get supervised probation and 10 days. How often are white people allowed to come back to court on their own recognizance vs. Black people that always have to post bail. Always wear a suit, always hire a external lawyer and never talk to the police until they tell you the charges (and when they do, only say, not guilty). |
For example, early-90s, me growing up in the sticks. Poor people were busted for growing/selling pot. It was reasonably their only choice, there were no jobs. 19 year old gets his car confiscated, and loses his job. Has no way to support his new wife/baby. It just happened to be at the house where the pot was being grown. He did not live there. This kid gets hit with a felony, now he'll never get a job.
Meanwhile, 20 year old son of local construction company owner gets his plants confiscated, and a few hundred in tickets.
Everyone involved here was white. Judge, poor family growing pot, and the family that owned the construction company. The only difference is poor rednecks versus rich rednecks.