Not Racist!

Wait, you can't vote twice...

An instance of racism in the American courts, perhaps. Empirically speaking, you would need to provide more examples to demonstrate that it is systemic. Also, all other variables would need to be accounted for besides race.

+1 for white pyro chicks, though.

So if you include the whole Hammond affair in here, would that make the court system not racist, but sexist?

"Wait, you can't vote twice..."

Why can't you? Lots of people do. It pads the voter participation numbers, which everyone approves of. Please don't be afraid to speak your mind.... twice. Or more!

*cherry picks one example of a potential failure by the courts*

THEY'RE ALL RACIST!

Cherry picking is the key to forum politics discussion the internet over.

It's why I don't ever take threads like this seriously. It's impossible to have a rational political discussion on the internet without cherry picking, strawmanning, and namecalling becoming the norm, so I instead default to shitposting.

I abstain I do not know enough of specific details to reasonably form a view, and without wanting to offend anyone, confidence in information provided

Un-American!

What Yigg said.

You need more than one example to show a pattern. Are the majority of white people Not charged, while a majority of Apaches are charged and convicted?

So no, this does not amount to proof of anything.

The OP fails as a coherent claim of racism against the *courts* specifically. The OP misunderstands the court system.

The courts do not bring charges.

In the US sytem, charges are brought against individuals (or legal persons) in one of three ways:

1. By the police (for minor offences), or:
2. By the county, district, or state attorney, or:
3. By a grand jury.

The courts are seperate from these. The role of the court is to decide the case - not to decide who should and should not be charged. Courts do not make charging decisions.

Thus, the decision not to charge the white woman mentioned in the OP was not a decision made by any court.

We would need to know more about these cases. For example, were both cases deliberate arson? Were both fire-starters of sound mind? Did they have previous offenses? And so forth.

Tolstoy, it would be the result, not the proof.

If you want an example of systematic racism in America, look no further than the war on drugs, and all the different levels that are involved in turning poor Americans, and in particular black people in inner cities, in to sheep for a runaway prison system.

I vote that without more sample sizes it isn't proof either way.

I'd prefer to have full details of the case before making any claims either way.

Not enough details, but another possible cause in any particular case is that our system of criminal justice is extremely variable.