To their credit the British are at least trying to make amends and change their ways when it comes to institutional racism. Whether it be policing or sports, rather than just deny, deny, deny.
I dunno man, when you bring up rascism in the police the response is always 'Ah well it's not as bad as America' and then move on. That's my experience in my overwhelmingly white (UK based people that is) circle.
I've even seen that on the news. When this issue had its turn as the headline news a couple of years ago an expert presented the data and the BBC anchor said 'well come on you're talking like we're as bad as the USA. We're nowhere near that' and the guy said that's the issue, everybody acts like we're doing great but actually there are real problems which were highlighted 20+ years ago after that kid was killed and nothing has changed because of the dismissal.
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Well if i would look at this data, then maybe, just maybe, my first thought is that whites carry cannabis less often than blacks, so get caught less often and so are sentenced less often? but now i get it, ofc its racism.
Bro, the data is a percentage. It shows that of the group of people who are caught with cannabis, if they are white they are X percentage likely to get jailed. If they are Indian they are Y percentage likely to get jailed.
It's not saying 20% of black people are in jail because cannabis and 14% of white people.
It doesn't say that 20% of people in jail for cannabis are black and 14% white.
It doesn't say 20% of black people smoking weed are blacj and 14% are white.
It shows that of all the white people caught with weed 14% go to jail. Of the black people caught with weed 20% go to jail. You are 6 percentage points more likely to go to jail if you are black vs white.