Wait A Minute! There Is A Bigger Problem

http://www.alternet.org/story/153782/on_mlk_day%3A_how_a_racist_criminal_justice_system_rolled_back_the_gains_of_the_civil_rights_era/?page=1

Understandably I am not a lawyer of any kind so I do not see these injustices first hand,but I would like to argue a different point. I think that it is simply not the legal system that is racist any more so than our economic. If we were to see massive overhauls in the economic system, fewer people would be in the legal.

Perhaps I have a overblow faith in our legal system,but I would think that we should have more faith in it that our economic system. The legal system is design, flaws and all, to provide equal and fair treatment over the course of history. Our economic system is basicaly a bunch of words on a piece of paper. There is not room left for the spirit of economics like there is from the law.  Lower paying jobs tend to go to people of color.  Those people of color are then more apt to be involved in the legal system.  Thus, we should not blame the legal system as it is the second stop on a bad train  ride. 

Now once those of color reach the legal system they face overtly racists penlities that pale in comparison to thos face by white who commit the same crime.  Take into consideration the deparity between sentencing for crack. Sentence for crack of the more expensive varity are less that those of the cheaper variety.  What do you think effects people of color more? The facts and figures given in this article are true, and people of color are more likely to face incarsation, but it remains my argument that it is the economic system that fails them first and then the legal system.  Both fail, but we need to look at keeping these people from ending up infront of a judge before we start blaming the judge