Can we be real for a minute? I am stick and tired of the racism that people of color have to go through. A 17 year old BLACK CHILD was gunned down by a white homeowner in Miami. yes, Trayvon Johnson, the BLACK CHILD, broke into the woman's house and was stealing things, shooting a BLACK CHILD is not necessary and that nasty white woman needs to be charged with murder, period.
But that's almost beside the point, sadly. This happens too many times for it not to be systemic and we need a systemic solution. I think the new wave of social justice can be found in Affirmative Policing. Affirmative Action in the workplace has worked very well for black people who we all agree need a leg up due to systemic racism. The systemic racism exists just as much in policing, so why not enact Affirmative Policing?
I could go on and on with the statistics. Black people are incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people. Black people are arrested far more often than white people. Black people are more likely to be reported for crimes. All this is evidence that people are being racist in reporting black people more often for crime. And even if black people are committing more crime (which I don't think they really are), then it's society's fault for making them poor and desperate.
Some (not all, but some) of this can be alleviated by adjusting policing rules to give black people an advantage in dealing with police, to adjust incarceration rates. For example, if a black child invades someone's house and Kills someone, police should just let that child off with a warning. When stopping black males for violent crimes, police should allow those black males to get off the first time no matter what. I think we can all agree that a little leniency would go a long way.
Honestly, it seems like nothing can end racism. It's everywhere, and that makes me sick. But we can take another step to solving the problem by affirmative policing.
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