04-18-2018, 10:56 AM
(04-18-2018, 10:37 AM)bfine32 Wrote: However, you are truly enlightened and know this is an issue of racism.
(04-18-2018, 10:41 AM)GMDino Wrote: One thing we have to try and remember is that when Matt starts talking about stats and facts he has researched them.
That doesn't make him "the" expert on any particular subject, but it means he has done the legwork (usually unrelated to this board and its topics) and has the info to back up his assumptions and statements.
He isn't one to just spout off an opinion based on what he "feels" or what he has experienced himself with no other background data.
That's why so many respect his opinion.
I appreciate the defense, and it is true. I am actually at home right now writing an article that focuses on the disproportional impact of the criminal justice system on people of color. I'm writing an article on felony disenfranchisement in the southern states and the history of race involved with that. This policy is written to be colorblind, but because of policies like the concept of broken windows policing, the application results in more than 20% of the black voting age population in four states being disenfranchised. I am currently and quite literally surrounded by academic papers, news articles, books, and legal briefs talking about all of these things.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
