You say @We Never Know is stubbornly intransigent.And if it turned out that the selection amounted to 80% lovelies and only 20% knuckle-draggers, we would want to know why it should end up so unfairly, wouldn't we?
Now, in the case of the extremely disproportionate numbers of blacks/whites (as opposed to the other groups in the chart, which are much closer to what would be expected) we must ask why. And if we begin be concluding that blacks are much more criminally inclined, then we'd have to ask ourselves why that might be. It is, for example, very much in the nature of oppressed people to rise up -- sometimes violently -- against their oppressors. Or, when economic goods are grossly unfairly divided, for those on the losing end to look for means (perhaps illegal) of redress.
There may well be, of course, many, many more reasons for the disparity in prison populations versus non. And that's the question I was trying to bring up in the face of @We Never Know's stubborn intransigence.
Well, he is....but I think you misunderstand him in this
matter.
There's the rigidly standard view that the singular
reason for the disparity of blacks dis-proportionately
convicted of crimes, is white racism & institutional
racism implemented by whites.
It's assumed that only whites are the cause.
If white culture can be so evil, then why is it that
we cannot consider that black culture has its own
touch of evil? Perhaps it accounts for a fraction
of the disparity?
To close our eyes to any but the politically correct
view is to be blind. I'll guarantee that the situation
is far more complex than the enforcers of correct
thought on the left & the right would have us believe.