Paul Manafort: Beneficiary of America’s Sentencing Gap
Class and race work together in the prosecutor’s office, judge’s chambers, and juror’s box, providing something close to a systemic guarantee: A poor person, or person of color — or one of the millions of Americans to which both identities apply — will not face the same criminal-justice system that men like Paul Manafort experience.
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When a black woman gets more time for unknowingly casting an illegal vote in a local election than for everything Manafirt did, you cannot deny white privilege is real.
Manafort stole 25 million over 10 years and the judge treated it like a "first time" offense.
And if someone had been breaking and entering people's homes for 10 years and stealing a total of 250,000?
Would a judge say "first time?"
Seriously? Four years? Seriously? If the average mugging victim carries $250, Manafort = 100,000 muggings. Four years? Seriously?
This should help some to understand why Black athletes kneel during the National Anthem - Little Joey Shitstain excluded, that dudes brain is fried.
