Black people still face punishment for conduct whites are allowed

Evidence

Hundreds of years after the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, a presumption of danger and criminality still follows Black people everywhere. New language has emerged for the non-crimes that have replaced the Black Codes: driving while Black, sleeping while Black, sitting in a coffee shop while Black. All reflect incidents in which African Americans have been mistreated, assaulted, or arrested for conduct that would be ignored if they were white. In schools, Black children are suspended and expelled at rates that vastly exceed the punishment of white children for the same behavior. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 852

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• XREF: connects to: Almost no white rioters against Blacks faced punishment — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 492