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Well; it’s official, the age of racial discrimination in United States courts is finally over. I know, I know, you don’t believe me, but it’s true. There is sound empirical evidence that points to this fact. What evidence? Why, all recent, major, high-profile court cases and in particular, O. J. Simpson, Jason Williams, Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake, Scott Peterson, David Westerfield, Martha Stewart, Winona Ryder and most recently, Michael Jackson. Let me explain.

The argument has been made for years that the American system of government, “the man” and, in particular, the American court system unfairly targets, persecutes and discriminates against Blacks. While this may or may not have been true in the past, it is apparently no longer the case, or is at least trumped by much larger and more important forms of discrimination; namely one’s celebrity status and “class”.

Let’s begin by taking a look at the list of court cases cited above. First, all of the court cases are similar in that they were all criminal trials. In addition, most involved an individual of celebrity prior to prosecution and most were conducted in the state of California. Of these cases, only White individuals were convicted. No Blacks were convicted of any crime, despite, generally, overwhelming DNA evidence and eye witness testimony of their guilt. In two cases, Jason Williams and Kobe Bryant, they even ADMITTED to the act and they STILL were not convicted. Scott Peterson and Martha Stewart were convicted purely on circumstantial evidence. Mr. Peterson, a nobody, got the maximum penalty allowed by law. Martha Stewart, a celebrity, barely received a slap on the wrist. The same goes for Winona Ryder.

Furthermore, if anyone was “hounded” by prosecutors, it was clearly the White individuals, Martha Stewart in particular. In O.J. Simpson’s case, there was ample evidence for him to have been investigated. The nature of the crime clearly indicated a crime of passion and he had recently had arguments with one of the victims. Thus, the police certainly did not unfairly single him out. The same goes for Jason Williams, who actually admitted to shooting the victim, attempted to cover up the crime, lied to 911 operators and had many eyewitnesses finger him as the shooter. Certainly, police did not single him out for persecution. Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson both had individuals come to the police and press charges, so there is no opportunity for prosecutors to have acted unfairly there either. When an alleged victim comes to the police for help, it is a prosecutor’s job to take the victim seriously. That is why we pay prosecutors.

Now, if racial discrimination was such a problem, then; statistically, one would expect that at least one of the Black individuals mentioned above would have gone to jail for SOMETHING, even if it was purely a slap on the wrist. Instead, nothing. Remember, current Black leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farakhan do not claim that racial discrimination exists only at certain levels, they claim that the entire system is corrupt and discriminatory and have often been seen supporting many of the Black individuals cited above.

But the evidence does not support their claims. If we look simply on the face of the actual empirical evidence, it points in exactly the opposite direction; that Whites are potentially the victims of racial discrimination, not Blacks. This may or may not be the case, but the evidence CERTAINLY does not support the claim that Blacks are discriminated against within the American court system. It is pretty clear that the race of the Black individuals in the cited court cases played no part in the accusations brought against them and certainly did not cause them to be convicted.

And none of this even gets into the court cases involving athletes, where; again, racial discrimination seems non-existent. Once again, in the arena of athletics; whether you are black or white, you are seemingly invulnerable to the law or at least given a slap on the wrist.

Thus, it is pretty clear that “celebrity”, “class” or rather “status” discrimination obviously trumps any kind of racial discrimination and thus, we can conclude that the much-ballyhooed racial discrimination is really caused by and simply a form of “status” discrimination and has nothing to do with race. Because Blacks have a higher percentage of poor within their ranks than Whites, this “status” discrimination simply makes it LOOK like racial discrimination, when it is not actually the case. Thus, the real source of discrimination within the American court system is based upon one’s “class” or status as a celebrity, not one’s race. One’s race simply makes it statistically more likely that one will be in a poorer “class” or not have a certain “status”.

Hence, it can be concluded that the age of racial discrimination within America’s court system is over. In fact, it may have never even existed at all but simply been an outgrowth and/or misinterpretation of the much more prevalent and rampant “status” discrimination. At the very least, any racial discrimination that may have existed has been greatly distorted by this “status” discrimination multiplier.