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In reply to the discussion: White House: America's prisons more costly than helpful [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)White kids make as many "poor choices" as black kids. Adolescents and young adults, males especially, tend to be reckless. I was reckless, and it was frequently rather obvious my "white privilege" card was in play in my interactions with law enforcement. I was a nice kid with mental health "issues," not some big scary Black or Mexican guy. In this racist nation a black or Hispanic kid can be an adult at fourteen or even less, while a white kid's "youthful indiscretions" can stretch past his twenties and into his thirties. Look at George W. Bush.
White kids don't get shot by the police or sent to jail as often as black kids for crimes that are equally corrosive to the fabric of U.S. society.
I hold everyone to high standards.
You're not even close.