backJT

4mo

Marshawn Lynch and Paul Pierce are Black men who avoided severe punishment. But they did so because they could afford the best high-powered legal teams who could negotiate plea deals and leverage their client’s public image. This isn’t evidence that race doesn’t matter; it’s evidence that extreme wealth (Class) can sometimes override racial bias in the legal system.

OJ Simpson got away with killing a white woman.

The key distinction is between the “average” Black person and the black elite athlete. Statistical disparities in DUI arrests and convictions are well-documented in studies (like those from the ACLU or Bureau of Justice Statistics), which show Black drivers are stopped, searched, and arrested for DUI at higher rates than white drivers, despite similar rates of actual impairment.
The system treats a famous millionaire differently than it treats a working-class person of the same race.

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I live in Seattle, they love this nigga here bro. And his case was him sleep after hitting a stationary object then sleeping on the side of the road.
So, the example is bad because it conflates the experience of the ultra-wealthy 1% with the general population, ignoring the reality that the other 99% of Black drivers don’t have a team of lawyers and a publicist to get their charges reduced to a fine.

LVL

4mo

Free him

beflygelt

4mo

there's CCTV of him driving that night (not the accident)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa14zzk

speeding like an absolute idiot, you have to be a special type of entitled to get drunk and then maneuver this reckless. that's literally murder afaic he did not care