It’s too easy for white guys to claim mental health issues.

Most judges are White and they see all White people as redeemable. Young Black people up here are languishing away at Rikers for very petty crimes that White kids do and never even get arrested for. I’m not surprised by this article, but it does make me mad. The justice system is so quick to throw us away, but Whites…

Nah. He’d sit in jail for over 2 years with a horribly overworked public defender attempting to help him without the possibility of bail. He would be referred to as a thug and animal, instead of a kid with emotional problems. After sitting in jail for over 2 years waiting for his trial, the judge wouldn’t even pretend…

The takeaway: Black kid beats up someone, they’re animals, it’s their culture, they’re inherently more violent, etc. and they’re locked away

If this is a self-contained school for emotional behavior disorders, this would generally mean this kid has a pretty severe case of EBD. I have a few students with EBD (none this severe) and the impulse control just isn’t there. When something makes them mad, generally their first instinct is to violence. Hell, last…

Disagree. The Root has always been straight forward. The article speaks the truth. And sometimes that truth hurts. We gotta do better for all of us for all of us to do better.

You can bury your head in the sand and blame reality on some perceived bias, but that won’t change reality.

Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.

Omg this article is fucking perfect.

To the people who keep telling me that this isn’t forced or coerced:

Considering how widespread a practice it is in the criminal (in)justice system to hold people in jail regardless of whether or not they’ve commited or been convicted of a crime and without trial, the use of indefinite jail time and mandatory minimums to force plea deals on the innocent, the disproportionate severity…

I wonder how many of the dregs who support this are also fervent believers that Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist? I have my suspicions....