[learc83]

You're not going to find the solution buried in a random hacker news comment thread.

But step one is to acknowledge that systemic racism exists in the first place. Half of the voters in the country explicitly deny the existence of systemic racism and the need to change anything at all.

[giantg2]

Do you have a poll for that claim, or are you just stereotyping based on party?

[user982]

https://www.uml.edu/Research/public-opinion/polls/2020/Race-...

"Democrats, liberals, Americans under the age of 50 and those who score low on the racial resentment scale are all far more likely than Republicans, conservatives, Americans older than age 50, and those scoring high in racial resentment to think that Blacks are treated less fairly than whites by the police."

[giantg2]

"A majority of American adults think that policing in this country is not fair – 51% say that Blacks are treated less fairly than whites in their interactions with police, compared to 41% who say they are treated the same. Another 7% say whites are treated less fairly than Blacks."

I see that 48% of American adults view it as not a problem or a problem in the other direction. Granted this is only a 1000 person study based on subjective experience. I wonder if they have larger studies, or any studies on objective evaluation[0] of if someone was treated differently based on race. I know I've been treated poorly by police but I don't believe race was a factor.

[0] seems like the 20% harsher sentencing could be an indication, but I'll have to look at that more

[sdenton4]

Here's some background reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow

It's a great book, with copious references and research behind it.

Bryan Stevenson's book 'Just Mercy' is also well worth reading, and directly relevant to this discussion. Stevenson was the lead in the supreme court case that led to death and LWOP being off limits for juveniles.

[giantg2]

I've seen some stuff about the idea of the new Jim crow, but not that book specifically. There are a lot of issues in the justice system. They do allow injustices to be perpetrated on a racial basis, but not only on a racial basis. I'm currently dealing with a situation that involves rights violations by both the state police and a magistrate. There's straight up corruption going on and the system doesn't care.