>CB: No, even Al Gore had to admit that currently in the U.S. there is
general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people >and other
"darker" people in the form of racial profiling.
To agree with Charles here, the point is not that blacks are killed only by white cops, but that cops in general are far less likely to arrest or kill white citizens. The privilege of whitness is in not being killed by the police. Brutal black cops may take advantage of the vulnerability of fellow blacks to abuse and kill them, but the racism is that neither white or black cops will feel free to abuse whites in the same way.
The death penalty is actually similar. Blacks are actually not killed that much more often than whites for the same kinds of murder, but if you kill a white person (whether you are white or black), you are far more likely to get the death penalty than if you kill a black person. The judicial system just does not treat the killing of a black person as seriously, whether they are killed by a cop or by a private individual.
That is the inherent racism of the judicial and policing system.
-- Nathan Newman