[jokethrowaway]

We're overrepresented in poverty and crime, so it's reasonable that police officers would be biased against black people.

I definitely get stopped more often than my white friends (albeit it changes based on the country). I've been asked several times by police officers in Europe whether I was an immigrant from North Africa with the implication I was dealing drugs.

A lot of north africans immigrants in the country where I was actually deal drugs and I look like I'm from North Africa, so it makes sense for police officers to question me more.

This is not systemic racism, this is recognising patterns, this is an explicit bias.

I can't find a single law discriminating on people's skin color: that's why I think there is no systemic racism.

[ceejayoz]

> This is not systemic racism, this is recognising patterns, this is an explicit bias.

An explicit bias, held by agents of the state, affecting their behavior towards the citizenry with no regard to individual innocence. Congrats, you've demonstrated systemic racism.

> I can't find a single law discriminating on people's skin color: that's why I think there is no systemic racism.

Kristallnacht wasn't legally authorized, either, but it'd be an odd claim that it didn't reflect systemic anti-Jewish bias in Nazi Germany.