If You Ever Wondered What Exactly Is White Privilege? This Was It.……

Shroeder and dou­ble mur­der­er Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse wear­ing a suit and tie.

Before dou­ble mur­der­er Kyle Rittenhouse was set free by a dis­grace­ful, almost all-white jury, Bruce Shrouder, the judge over­see­ing the tri­al, all but freed the fresh-faced killer.
Shrouder’s anger and dis­dain for the pros­e­cu­tion’s case and his lovey-dovey treat­ment of the youth­ful dou­ble mur­der­er Kyle Rittenhouse was one of the worst instances of white ‑pow­er dis­played in a courtroom.
But as black is to white and front is to back, Shrouder’s love affair with the defense and the ruth­less killer should only be processed against the back­ground of white judges’ racial ani­mus toward black defendants.
Those judges sen­tence black defen­dants to expo­nen­tial­ly harsh­er sen­tences than they do white defen­dants. On aver­age, a black defen­dant receives 20% more time in prison than a white defen­dant who com­mits the same offense.
In 2017 the Washington Post report­ed Black men who com­mit the same crimes as white men receive fed­er­al prison sen­tences that are, on aver­age, near­ly 20 per­cent longer, accord­ing to a report on sen­tenc­ing dis­par­i­ties from the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC).

Murderer of Ahmaud Arbery Travis McMichael tes­ti­fy­ing. The mur­der defen­dant is wear­ing a suit and tie.

According to the report, the black/​white sen­tenc­ing dis­par­i­ties have been increas­ing in recent years, the report found, par­tic­u­lar­ly fol­low­ing the Supreme Court’s deci­sion in United States v. Booker in 2005. Booker gave fed­er­al judges sig­nif­i­cant­ly more dis­cre­tion on sen­tenc­ing by mak­ing it eas­i­er to impose harsh­er or more lenient sen­tences than the USSC’s sen­tenc­ing guide­lines called for. Before that deci­sion, fed­er­al judges were gen­er­al­ly required to abide by those sen­tenc­ing guidelines. 
The Sentencing Commission’s report­ed that the black/​white sen­tenc­ing dis­par­i­ties are being dri­ven in large part by “non-gov­ern­ment spon­sored depar­tures and vari­ances” — in plain English, sen­tenc­ing choic­es made by judges at their own dis­cre­tion. Judges are less like­ly to vol­un­tar­i­ly revise sen­tences down­ward for black offend­ers than for white ones, in oth­er words. And even when judges do reduce black offend­ers’ sen­tences, they do so by small­er amounts than white offend­ers.

From Stardom To Orange Prison Jumpsuit! Handcuffed R Kelly Arraigned In Court
Singer and accused sex­u­al assaulter Robert Kelly in prison jump­suit and shackles.

If you ever won­dered what the term insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism means, this is it. It is the built-in racial ani­mus in the United States that is nei­ther sub­tle nor implicit.
This trav­es­ty of a crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem is a dis­grace­ful spec­ta­cle that should­n’t fool any­one into believ­ing it works the same for all Americans.
From Police to Prosecutors, judges, and every bot­tom feed­er on the food chain, the ani­mus toward peo­ple of col­or is a dis­grace to the entire world. It is well-oiled machin­ery of racism and racial privilege.
Shroeder insist­ed that Prosecutors not refer to the two men who died and one injured at the hands of Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as victims.
His log­ic is that it is exact­ly what the jury is sup­posed to be find­ing out, the ques­tion of whether or not they are vic­tims or just … well, by his log­ic, dis­pos­able loot­ers and arsonists.
In fact, he told the defense attor­neys for Kyle Rittenhouse that they could label the two deceased arson­ists and loot­ers if they could prove it.
To an apol­o­gist of this sys­tem, this seems a fair trade­off, but to some­one attuned to the sys­tem, these were guardrails put in place to pre­serve the sanc­ti­ty of white fragility.…white innocence.
Berating the hap­less pros­e­cu­tors while act­ing as a pseu­do defense attor­ney for Rittenhouse, Bruce Shrouder laid the per­fect foun­da­tion for the coup de grâce, the not guilty ver­dict by the almost lily-white jury.

We wit­nessed a dou­ble-mur­der­er close to an unper­turbed tri­al judge as if it was the most com­mon thing in the world. Someone asked me why it is that Black defen­dants are gen­er­al­ly shack­led? Hands shack­led to chains around their waists, and feet shack­led togeth­er, reduc­ing them to shuf­fling unsym­pa­thet­ic crea­tures that must be guilty.
On the oth­er hand, we saw Rittenhouse in a suit sit­ting and talk­ing, wear­ing a suit in all his white fresh-faced glory.
To begin with, a per­son in a suit is a more sym­pa­thet­ic fig­ure than a shack­led one. The very shack­les make the defen­dant unsym­pa­thet­ic, already condemned.
So how do some mur­der­ers get to wear suits while oth­ers are shack­led like run­away slaves?
Judges grant white killers bail, so they get to wear suits to court.
Judges hard­ly grant the Black accused bail or set bail at such an incred­i­ble out­ra­geous amount that they can­not afford to post bond. So the Black defen­dant is brought to court in shack­les.…… pre­sumed guilty even before a trial.

This writer is not mak­ing a case for bail for mur­der accused, even though I respect the idea of inno­cent until proven guilty; I am mere­ly stat­ing the bla­tant inequity in the system.
On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was gunned down in Miami Gardens by a wannabe white, wannabe cop vig­i­lante George Zimmerman.
The polit­i­cal right rose in defense of the vig­i­lante killer, and the sys­tem found Zimmerman not guilty. Kyle Rittenhouse, a vig­i­lante, left his home state of Illinois and went to Wisconsin, where he mur­dered two men and seri­ous­ly injured anoth­er. The Political right rose in defense of this killer; the sys­tem found him not guilty.
The mes­sage inher­ent in these acquit­tals and oth­ers is that more and more the polit­i­cal rights have so cor­rupt­ed the sys­tem that jus­tice may now be an idea only.
The coun­try is fast approach­ing full fas­cist mode…

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.