So when the police and the court system treat people of color differently than white people, according to actual statistics, its your opinion that the obvious racial factor should be ignored? Ignoring the obvious seems like a pretty horrible way to fix systemic issues.
I am asking you to take apart what you are saying here and note how it promotes the concept of racism. You suggest that the police and the courts treat people of color differently than white people and that I am suggesting we ignore the obvious. Well, what is it that you and the police and the courts are noting that is so obvious? It is the color of the victims. You are as much aware of the cause of the discrimination as the courts and the police and the whole system, and thus you want to base your cure for this injustice on the color of one's skin. But statistically you can abuse colored people in many places at twice the rate that you victimize whites and still abuse many more whites than people of color.
Also, you can even bring the rate of abuse of whites up and the abuse of blacks up but less so and even out the statistical abuse at some huge number of people.
I simply suggest then, that if your aim is to eliminate the statistical level of abuse between color and white by focus on the inequality of the numbers victims by percentage you will not address the real problem that the police, the courts, and the system victimizes a really lot of people. And if you state as a goal to prioritize your concerns for the victimization of people by race you will create envy and anger because being victimized makes you mean and mean people caused to be mean based on what color they are will divide people politically.
I recommend, then, that while you may note the greater percentage of abuse people of color may experience in a predominately some other color culture, that is only due to the fact there is a greater flow of bigotry in one direction. That means that, for white people in the US to day due to demographic shifts, they will soon have their turn in the racial barrel.
For these and other reasons, I say that victims should unite with victims to fight injustice and de-emphasize race. The problem is injustice and if you can fix that racism will go away. The ineffable part of the human being we refer to worthy of the highest dignity does not have a color and if you see God within your brother you won't be worried about the color of the skin.
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