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by BizarroLand 1689 days ago
An opinion can be founded on incorrect conclusions generated from incomplete data.

Poverty + racism + the powers that be identifying black people as "super predators" and touting that they are more likely to arrest and more harshly punish black people for crimes != black people are criminal.

The system nurtures poorer black people to be more criminal than white people. It's not the nature of any group of people to be criminal or as a rule to intentionally flout societal norms.

There is no genetic component of that scenario.

Therefore, it is not that black people are fundamentally bad and unfixable. Any failings that you can find inexorably lead back to the flaws of the system itself.

If it is that the system itself is flawed and moldy and in desperate need of repair, and the people who refuse to so much as ponder whether there could be an explanation other than "black people are bad", well, it is safe to say that those people are in thrall to the powers that be, servants to the status quo; they are people who do no directly racist thing and yet, as if by a dark satanic miracle, are racist due to their own willful ignorance.