Whose lives matter more : comments [sigelphoenix]

I am somewhat heartened that the race of the defendant doesn't matter in a study of North Carolina records. It doesn't make up for the victim's race mattering, but considering my experience of the Carolinas it's much better than I would have expected. (My experience being that it was the only time in my life where I wanted to apologize to people for being white. We are not all actively bad human beings! Some of us think we should all be able to shop for groceries in peace! Some of us, in fact, don't really notice the race of other people shopping for groceries because all we see are human-shaped blobs between us and the carrots, and the idea that somehow race comes into play in carrot-acquisition strategies sounds like crazy-talk until we see it in action. And then we are very sad.)

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I'm also glad about the race of the defendant appearing to be irrelevant, and I wonder about the disparity. One possibility (just hypothesizing without data) is that it's easier to notice being racist when you punish more than when you protect less. That is, people know that reacting more harshly to a Black defendant would be bad (or, to take the cynical view, they know that they would get caught). But if you react strongly for the sake of a murder victim, well, that's justifiable, of course. But then it's harder to notice (cynical view: harder to get caught) when you happen not to feel quite as strongly for a Black victim.

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