I expected something less mindlessly politically correct from Aljazeera. I work in a low income school area and the problem is not racism. Teachers do not go into inner cities to work with black youth because they are racist. This sort of apologetic argument has been droning on since the 60s and yet it has changed nothing. Asians dealt with as much racism as blacks early on and yet they managed to bootstrap themselves out and now make as much money as whites on average. Why? Because they did not accept this culture of violence and ignorance that infects poverty stricken populations in America. The black population (particularly black men), on the other hand, has embraced it so fully that it’s hard to separate traditional black culture from the vile urban crime culture and some people don’t even know the difference. It is this culture that is the problem and it is the black population that needs to reject it. All these apologetic arguments do is make an excuse for putting off that rejection and thus prolonging the very pattern it rails against.

That being said, the racism in criminal justice is real and cops, unlike teachers, do share a culture of racism. I know because many of my friends were cops. They are no longer my friends because I saw them call black school children n*****s. In large part the Black population is incarcerated for providing vice, such as drugs, to the white population. Whites get high and Blacks do the time. The result is almost a rebirth of the slave system within the penal system.