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I didn't say they lacked ingroup bias. I'm just saying they have less bias overall.If the majority of white people have no racial bias then how come they are never in the courtroom when they're given blk men these million years sentences ? Or letting of some cop off who killed a black man ?You don't have to worry about black people loving non-blacks too much. The American National Election Studies did a study on ingroup bias by race in America and found that blacks have the highest ingroup bias of any race in America. Whites had the least. Only the most conservative whites had a higher ingroup bias than the average black person. And white liberals were the only group to have an outgroup bias (bias against their own group).
I don't focus on what white people say. I focus on what white people do.
You see If what you say was the case; that whites have the least in group bias and blacks the most in group bias then we would not have the racial problems we have today.
It's not a race thing. It's a society thing. In most societies, minorities will have a higher ingroup bias than the majority, largely because of survival. If blacks outnumbered whites here, there's a good chance the bias would be higher among whites, because whites would be the minority then.
Sentencing can be affected by a number of things, but it's probably a component of class. Since black people are poorer on average than whites, they probably don't receive as good legal representation as whites in some cases. If you're wealthy, you can afford a better lawyer. If you're poor, you might have to use a public defender.
I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but I think it has less to do with race and more to do with income. The problem is that I don't know of a way around this.
As far as cops getting off for killing people, that happens both against black people and white people. And more white people are killed by cops than black people. They've also studied this and found that black people are no more likely to be killed by cops than white people, after you adjust for all factors other than race.
One of the best studies out there is by a black Harvard professor named Roland Fryer. An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
Fryer does still believe that cops unfairly target black people but his study shows that they at least don't disproportionately use lethal force against black suspects due to race. Another nuance he discovered is that white cops are actually less likely to shoot a black suspect than a black cop is. The evidence seems to suggest that white cops are more reluctant to use this force due to racial implications.