SobieskiSavedEurope
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#1) Reason more are stopped. Statistically they commit more crime so they are going to be stopped more frequently. I am going to have my wife's car serviced more frequently than my own because she drives more.
The behavior you are describing is explicitly prejudicial in the context of a traffic stop. It would be like if I argued for a stop and frisk program in NYC that targeted white men in suits in Manhattan on the basis that people belonging to that demographic commit more financial crimes than people belonging to other demographics. Or even more broadly, what if the police decided to randomly stop men they see driving since men commit the majority of violent crimes? After being stopped a few times, I imagine you would recognize the injustice of this argument. A traffic stop ought to be predicated on an observation of a traffic violation or some other minimal probable cause, and that's the point: black people are targeted on the basis of prejudicial arguments like the one you just made while others are not.
And it's not just traffic stops, there are also problematic racial disparities in the use of force, in the rates at which unarmed black men are shot by the police, as well as in other aspects of the criminal justice system, from bail decisions to plea-bargaining, jury selection, and sentencing (cf. Race and Crime vol. 4, 2016, I can cite specific passages if you like, referencing a variety of research over the last 20 years, or a good introduction to some common issues is the DOJ report on Ferguson).
#2) White folks aren't the ones with drugs in their car. LOL. Whites get arrested for meth very frequently and that holds the same penalty as blacks with crack.
Whites use and sell drugs at similar (or higher) rates than blacks, but blacks are more often arrested for drug use. Up until very recently there were also racial disparities in sentencing for drug related crimes.
#3) NW. Easy. Historical wealth builds on itself. Grandparents pass to parents pass to kids and so on. If I get a free house or a house at a discount I get a leg up. I am a 2nd generation American so I didn't have that advantage. Whites originally colonized the US so of course they have more generational wealth.
#4) Assets. I have no idea where he gets this data from but he is incorrect unless he is saying that black families are poor savers or excessive spenders.
Basically, you said it all when you said "Whites originally colonized the US so of course they have more generational wealth," you just don't seem to realize what was actually involved in that colonization, and not just 300 years ago but in the 20th century.
My family came as Catholic immigrants from Poland in the 20th Century, now my family is worth about 1.8 million in assets, and made about 240 K last year.
The fact is a lot of Whites, and also Asians who came rather recently are not just doing better than Blacks, and Hispanics, but even White colonist Protestants down South too.