Criminal justice reformers from Attorney General Eric Holder on down have given considerable focus to the institutional racism of the U.S. criminal justice system, but a new study suggests that the more whites are told the system is racist and unfair to Black people, the more they like it.
The study by researchers from Stanford University, published in Psychological Science, found that even when whites believe current sentencing laws are too harsh, they’re less likely to support changing them if they’re reminded that the current U.S. prison population is disproportionately Black.
Nationally, African-Americans constitute only 12 percent of America’s overall population, but represent 40 percent of the nation’s prisoners.
After agreeing that the three-strikes law was too harsh, the commuters had a curious response—if they had seen a video with more Black inmates, they were less likely to agree to sign a petition to change the law. With the group that saw a video featuring 25 percent Black inmates, more than half signed the petition. With the second group, only a quarter signed the petition.
“The Blacker the prison population, the less willing registered voters were to take steps to reduce the severity of a law they acknowledged to be overly harsh,” the researchers wrote.
The second experiment was conducted in New York City, involving the controversial stop-and-frisk policy that was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. One group of white New Yorkers was told the city’s prison population was 40 percent Black, while another group was told it was 60 percent Black. After both groups agreed that stop-and-frisk was punitive, the group that had been told the population was 60 percent Black was substantially less likely (12 percent versus 33 percent) to want to sign a petition to end stop-and-frisk.
In addition, in both experiments when participants were later asked to recall the percentage of Blacks in the prison population, they remembered the number as much higher than it was—even the New Yorkers who were told Blacks made up 60 percent of the prison population inflated the number higher.
The results suggest that whites intrinsically associated prison with Black people and automatically conflated prison, Blackness, and crime. This was illustrated by another finding—New Yorkers who were told that 60 percent of the prison population was Black were more likely to say that they were worried about crime in their neighborhoods if stop-and-frisk were repealed.
“Not only are Blacks strongly associated with violent crime, but also the more stereotypically Black a person’s physical features are perceived to be, the more that person is perceived as criminal,” the researcher wrote. “Even in death-penalty cases, the perceived Blackness of a defendant is related to sentencing: the more Black, the more deathworthy.”
Vox mentions a 2007 study showing that whites “actually become more supportive of the death penalty upon learning that it discriminates against Blacks.”
The researchers suggest that those criminal justice reformers who actually want to make some headway with white Americans should stress the cost effectiveness of reducing the prison population, rather than focusing on the racism and unfairness of the system.
“Many legal advocates and social activists seem to assume that bombarding the public with images, statistics and other evidence of racial disparities will motivate people to join the cause and fight inequality,” Hetey told Stanford Report. “But we found that, ironically, exposure to extreme racial disparities may make the public less, and not more, responsive to attempts to lessen the severity of policies that help maintain those disparities.”

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This is what good PR, total control of the mis-educational system & entertainment industry will do for you. Not only has the white collective bought into these lies; too many black people have also bought into them. While focusing on the numbers game, we choose to ignore that MOST of these people are in prison for non-violent drug offenses. And ignore WHO/WHAT traffics the drugs & has been discovered to be the biggest drug trafficker in the world: CIA. So while whites conveniently ignore their long documented & ongoing crimes against humanity; they continue to project their own inherent criminality & crimes onto black people. We are like the biblical sacrificial lamb. Offer us up for sacrifice to Lucifer and be absolved of your own many sins, I guess. This system is rotten to the core & this is nothing new. It is criminal and illegitimate & populated with the truly criminally insane who WORK FOR THE SYSTEM & who think they operate with impunity from the front door to the back door: from the racist cops on the street all the way up to the supreme court. They ALL benefit from the inherent racism of the system and they are ALL loathe (with few exceptions) to have a truly egalitarian and JUST system take it's place. Too many people have made their fortunes and careers off of our black asses. Hmmm…where does that sound eerily familiar? Oh yeah, the plantation system which is all the prison industrial complex system is: the NEW plantation.
Kind of wrong…but it is what it is.
Living under white supremacy, what do you expect. If you would do a survey, telling whites blacks are doing very well in the racist school system, they would say they would rather their children go to school with just whites. Bottomline, if we stay in this country, theynwould rather see us locked up or held as slaves. Once blacks all blacks understand white supremacy, we will start to act better, and start looking out for ourselves, nothing will ever change in this country between whites and blacks. What we are seeing is whites getting with blacks more and more, and it is not because they are liking us anymore, but they are looking out for their race surviving the killing rays of the sun, so their mixed race children will help them to survive, mixed with blacks. Whites are too stupid to understand that their racist ways cause the criminality in most blacks, in fact they do not even believe they are racist, they do not know what it is, it is ingrained in them. The best thing we need to do is stay away from them, and start to be about self determination.
Let start with Black and White skin and the reason for why the Black skin is so dislike by all races, simple go to the beach during the summer and the gyms during the winter and what do you see light skin colors trying to get dark like me,now the word hate that big because i hate to not like the lights skin person do you see the light hate because he can not walk , talk and look like me, i hate because their is so much knowledge out their for me to gain ,but i must fight with those who hate that i am dark then they of.so as long as this is evolving we will have both and why because know one want the other to be better then what they of.
William Gordon I really do not understand what you are saying, you said you must fight with those who hate that you are dark, is that what you do, and why? I am black, and I care less about what people think of my color, because I love my color, I know it is a godly gift we got from the creator, and the sun is our friend, because the sun love melanin people, total 100% protection from the UV rays of the sun. White supremacy is behind the dislike by other people toward black people, and all people of color. It is a mind game that has been played by the participants of white supremacy, the schools, the movies, TV, magazines, beauty pagents, the list goes on, they control all the media, the books, the schools our children attend, everything, that is why the world hates us, and too many blacks hate themselves, they took the hook, line and sinker, about our color, and hair. We blacks recieved the biggest gift from the creator, our skin, hair, and our rich continent. I will never allow the johnny come lately, make me feel bad.
I am a Black male also understand this you don't beat the enemy by been just like him Martin Luther King ,Huey P Newton,Malcolm X, just to name a few beat them with knowledge. Keep in mind we must put leaders like the enemy has in all parts of the world we must be a empire of gifted Black Business with doctors, lawyers, teachers, and policeman like the our enemy has built around us. Understand we the strong and those that see us know this but until we have the four corners and have great leaders in these corner to fight with knowledge and not with weapons of the destruction, we will always be fight with the enemy . In our community when something happen we look to the enemy to bring us out, and we go to using the race and skin game, but if we took what we already have our own community and reconstruct our community, then we have a problem, your enemy who you know hate you, now wonder what your next move.When a master lose control over that which he master , he look for a new way to conquer those he once rule it call knowledge known every moves that the opponent will try,he will employ all the gifted leaders he can get to defend his opponent and that how we must defeat him with our leaders who can do it all without him.
"The study by researchers from Stanford University, published in Psychological Science, found that even when whites believe current sentencing laws are too harsh, they’re less likely to support changing them if they’re reminded that the current U.S. prison population is disproportionately Black."
^^^^^And yet Negropeans in the US still believe that their white BFFs truly are "their friends"? Pick up the bloody clue phone, it's your "nigga wake up"….
NEELY FULLER- BY THE AGE OF 16 A WHITE PERSON KNOW THE RULES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZ7ZplOsrE
Nzingha Shabaka Nuff respect due. If it is said that a leopard can not change its spots, then too it can be said that our Yurugu enemy will NEVER be on the side of "justice" because he is only about "Just Us"…
THESE FOUR THINGS ARE DESIGNED TO PRODUCE MAXIMUM SOPHISTICATED CONFUSION AMONG THE VICTIMS: THIS INCIDENT FALLS UNDER THE RACIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENT #2—RACIAL POPULATION TAILORING … Nothing will ever change until Africans held captive in USKKK and UKKK riot and revolt.
Forget milk. Got revolution?
"If you do not understand white supremacy (racism) — what it is and how it works — everything else you understand will only confuse you.” — Neely Fuller, Jr.
NEELY FULLER JR- What Are the White Supremacist Doing Now ( cartoon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaDTzjrRHnY
Your overgeneralized views of whites are no different than whites' overgeneralized view of blacks. Not all white people are the devil.
Rhonda Thissen yeah, not all. bout 80-90 percent.
no all…and not most…but too many…turn their backs…and choose not to hold…others accountable
and too many still hold the views of Lester Maddox…and pre-born again George Wallace…because those were the views of this Nation…in which they were raised
just like in 1963…and 1952…and 1946…and 1934…and 1908…and 1884…and 1873
where black Americans look and see…not enough change…not full equality
white Americans in turn say…we are tired of hearing from you…about our 400 years of bad behavior…get over it…that is all…so much ancient history
we hold black people accountable for their behavior and need to change…and at times with a National angry voice…spoken by past white presidents…about black crime…welfare attitudes…and lack of achievement
but when we speak of the behavior and attitudes of white Americans…it is always never mind…forgetting the racism of America…was the sin…that belonged to them for over 400 years
our true error as a Nation…is believing…that a single law passed in 1964…was enough to change overnight…destructive attitudes held by too many whites…about the evilness of black American citizens
whites who now had to surrender…400 years of white affirmative action…which they have continued to do…put only with much anger…and lack of caring…for the struggles of the black community…in their recovery from the collective National and State governments…illegal 100 year policies…of segregation and discrimination
our history is clear as to the cause and the destruction of the black community
now it is time…for every American to say…the conditions as a whole in the black community…are an American responsibility
then and only then…can we honestly begin…to see to family and individual responsibility…when society is no longer the obstacle…to equal opportunity and success…for all black American citizens
no all…and not most…but too many…turn their backs…and choose not to hold…others accountable
and too many still hold the views of Lester Maddox…and pre-born again George Wallace…because those were the views of this Nation…in which they were raised
just like in 1963…and 1952…and 1946…and 1934…and 1908…and 1884…and 1873
where black Americans look and see…not enough change…not full equality
white Americans in turn say…we are tired of hearing from you…about our 400 years of bad behavior…get over it…that is all…so much ancient history
we hold black people accountable for their behavior and need to change…and at times with a National angry voice…spoken by past white presidents…about black crime…welfare attitudes…and lack of achievement
but when we speak of the behavior and attitudes of white Americans…it is always never mind…forgetting the racism of America…was the sin…that belonged to them for over 400 years
our true error as a Nation…is believing…that a single law passed in 1964…was enough to change overnight…destructive attitudes held by too many whites…about the evilness of black American citizens
whites who now had to surrender…400 years of white affirmative action…which they have continued to do…put only with much anger…and lack of caring…for the struggles of the black community…in their recovery from the collective National and State governments…illegal 100 year policies…of segregation and discrimination
our history is clear as to the cause and the destruction of the black community
now it is time…for every American to say…the conditions as a whole in the black community…are an American responsibility
then and only then…can we honestly begin…to see to family and individual responsibility…when society is no longer the obstacle…to equal opportunity and success…for all black American citizens
Armond Bellamar Barboza-Ross I completely agree with you, and the white Americans who say "we are tired of hearing from you" should try opening their ears instead of closing their minds to what's going on around them. Helloooo, Eric Gardner, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, not to mention countless of others? I just wish black Americans knew how much some of their white brethren dislike what's happening just as much as you all do.