I don't see any overwhelming evidence of any racism in the article you linked. Rather, I see two ways to interpret the same data.
One side, Democrats, sees it as proof of what the want to believe: that the criminal justice system is racist. They view the data through an emotional lens, and see it as a sort of wish fulfillment.
The other side, Republicans, interpret the data factually, not emotionally, and see proof that black Americans commit more crimes than Americans of other races.
Acknowledging that black Americans commit significantly more crimes than white Americans is not "being racist."
Some statistics for you to consider:
The Washington Post has created a database of every known deadly police shooting in America since 2015. Keep in mind that The Washington Post is a left-leaning newspaper. As of April, 2021, the police have shot and killed 6,211 people. Only 2% of them were unarmed black people. It should be greater than 13% if the police were racist.
Meanwhile, 89% of blacks who are killed, are killed by other black Americans.
Something else to consider: males age 18 to 34 commit the majority of crimes. About 3.19% of Americans are black males aged 18 to 34, yet, black Americans account for 51% murder and manslaughter arrests, 53% robbery arrests, and 36% all violent crime arrests.
Some stats from New York City: "blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 (though they were only 55 percent of all stops and only 23 percent of the city’s population). Blacks committed 80 percent of all shootings in the first half of 2009. Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98 percent of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70 percent of all robberies. Whites, by contrast, committed 5 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009, though they are 35 percent of the city’s population (and were 10 percent of all stops). They committed 1.8 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies."
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