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Duh: New York’s Court System Is Exactly as Racist as It Was in 1991

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🗑 New York’s court system still as racist as it was three decades ago

That’s not a guesstimate, people. In 1991, an investigating commission said that “there are two justice systems at work in the courts of New York State, one for Whites, and a very different one for…