[quote=Tick]It's bad that it happens, discrimination's bad all around, but systematic/legal discrimination bugs me more than gangs being assholes. Gangs aren't considered part of the norm/default, and their actions aren't considered or argued to be acceptable or just. They don't have legal authority over anyone, either. Which you will see with cases like these. An African American would never get away with trying to justify doing the same thing to someone white as the reverse does.

Worst thing is people who go on about how the U.S. is actually discriminatory against people who have traditionally had more rights and power, and this is all just a fantasy created to justify and perpetuate that discrimination.[/quote]

I forgot the biggest gang of all, the government officials. Organized crime. 

It's not just skin color, you see it with wealth, too. There was a case in Texas where a woman who was white, educated, and well off who also happened to favor the combination of Ambian and wine. She drove under the influence and ran off the road, hitting and killing a mother and her baby. Then there is the recent "affluenza" case that allowed a 16 year old who killed four people when he was 3x the legal limit to go to a posh rehab place that costs about half a million a year that his parents will pay for rather than to juvenile detention. Their argument was partially based on the fact that the kid was spoiled and was raised to get everything he wanted and never had any consequences thus rendering him unable to make good judgement. If that's the case, the punishment is just enabling him again. There are many cases where it seems as if having money vs not having money is the only difference and the punishments reflect that.