Every time I read about so-called racial dis-proportionality, the Saga of the Racist Red Light Camera comes to mind!
Just so everyone knows what I’m talking about, racial dis-proportionality is the unfairness mantra spouted by the race hustlers when minorities for some reason seem to be dis-proportionally represented! For example: If Blacks are 13% of the total population and if the number of Blacks arrested is for some reason greater than 13% of all those arrested, this proves the Justice System is targeting Blacks and is therefore Racist. Consequently, our Justice System needs to change! So arresting those who may be guilty is less important than making sure the proportion of Blacks arrested is in line with their population percentage!! This of course is total nonsense, but the race hustlers keep hammering how unfair our systems are and keep using racial proportionality as proof!
Now with that as a background, here is the story of the Racist Red Light Camera! In a community not far from where I live, they decided to install, on a trial basis, a red light camera. It would photo the license plate of any vehicle which ran a red light at a particular intersection. The registered owner would then be sent a ticket, for running a red light. Hopefully this would cut down on violations, and since the camera was operational 24/7, it would also raise needed revenue! Everything worked fine during the trial period. However, when deciding to make this permanent, someone discovered a racial discrepancy! More Blacks were being ticketed than Whites!! In this community about 45% of the population was Black, but more than 70% of those caught by the camera were Black! The logical explanation of course would be that more Blacks than Whites were running the red light. But that was not an acceptable explanation! To the race hustlers, the only possible explanation for this disparity was that the “Camera” was targeting Blacks, and therefore must be “Racist”! So after Blacks protested the camera’s continued use, the “Racist Camera” was finally removed! And so it goes!!