Formal rejection of racial profiling leaves racialized incarceration rates untouched

Evidence

Clearly, this executive order on racial profiling makes explicit in America’s global designs what it now extends locally only through sublimation and implication. Doing unto others as you would continue to do unto yourself. The executive order will have no diminishing effect on the racially driven rates of incarceration in America where people of color, totaling a third of the general population, make up more than three-quarters of the spiraling prison population. Racially driven incarceration, in fact, is a cornerstone of the logic of born again segregative racism, of warehousing the poor and managing the unassimilated heterogeny. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 466

Categorization

  • XREF: Precisely the contact/institution gap the reader seeks: abolishing one formal discriminatory practice (profiling) coexists with intact institutional discrimination (incarceration), echoing everyday-tolerance vs structural-inequality themes. — connects to: Racial incarceration disparities persist even after controlling for arrest rates — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 841; Refusing to count by race masks ongoing structural racial restriction; Racial disparities in sentencing can arise without any judicial bias or discrimination (+1 more)
  • ADDENDUM: Supports a follow-up to ā€˜On Sacrifice’/ā€˜Grafting’-style essays by showing how formally pro-equality policy coexists with structurally opposite outcomes — a systemic hypocrisy mechanism.

Broader Connections