SCOTUS rules on Travel Ban

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(06-27-2018, 12:22 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 1. There is a systemic presence of racial discrimination that exists in our institutions that must be addressed.
2. Racial segregation is stronger in some places right now than it was pre-Brown v. Board of Education.
3. Black defendants are incarcerated at higher rates and for harsher sentences than white defendants for the exact same crimes. 

1. I don't believe racism to be systemic. I think there are racist individuals, and some of those individuals have made it into higher positions in some cases, but I don't believe it to be systemic in all institutions.

2. I would need specific examples of this to address it.

3. Black defendants are incarcerated at higher rates, but also tend to commit crimes at higher rates. As for harsher sentences for the exact same crime...no two crimes are exactly the same. A one murder is not the same as another. Show me examples where a black defendant got a harsher sentence than his white partner for the EXACT same crime. And you would need multiple examples in order to support your premise that it is systemic.