Mass Incarceration of African Americans based on race

I am taking the stance that is against the notion that Mass Incarceration of African Americans is based on race and not based on actual crimes, for the most part. Most of the arguments I have heard have been from the Netflix Documentary, '13th'. There are many past injustices I can agree on in terms of the war on drugs or how the prison system treats prisoners etc. That's not what I am here for. I am here to provide arguments using facts and statistics that can counter the idea that African Americans are being sent to prison based on race through a racist criminal justice system CURRENTLY. My argument is simple: Let's start off with the current US population. It's 323,000,000. The US prison population is 2,300,000. That is roughly 0.7% of the US population. Not even 1%. The US prison population in 1972 for example, was 300,000. And the US population was 210,000,000. So 0.2% of the US population in 1972 were in prison. That means that over the course of 46 years, that is a 0.5% increase. Which also means that on average, the prison population has risen 0.1% for every 9 years, since 1972 - 2017. (I'm providing these statistics to give you a wider scope as to how relatively small these numbers are) Now let's analyze the statistics for African Americans within the US prison population: The African American US population is 42,000,000 or 13% of the US population. The African American prison population is 35% of the US prison population which is 2.3M as addressed above. That means that roughly 805,000 African Americans are in prison. This means that 2% of the African American US population is in prison. One of the constant arguments I hear, are the injustices involved with drug offenses for the African American communities. So let's take a look at the statistics for drug offenses. Of the 35% of African Americans in prison. Roughly 15% of that 35%, are in for non violent drug offenses. To give you an idea, that is roughly 120,000 cases. Now to broaden this scope even more. That is 0.03% of the African American population. Does 0.03% sound like MASS Incarceration? Mass defined as 'majority'. Now just a bit more context, 58% of that 35%, are in for violent crimes. That is roughly 450,000 cases. Which is roughly 1% of the African American population. Still does not sound like "Mass" Incarceration. But what would be statistics if we didn't have comparison? Let's go over different races in comparison, to be fair: The Non Hispanic White US population is roughly 63%. That is roughly 200,000,000. About 37% of the 2.3M US prison population are non hispanic whites. Which is roughly 900,000. That means that 0.5% of the Non Hispanic White US population is in prison. So to be fair, 1.5% more African Americans are in prison compared to Whites in terms of disproportion. And just to save characters and give a different race to compare, 0.9% of the Hispanic Population are in prison. So given the facts, how can anyone argue that the 13% African American US population is being mass incarcerated? How can anyone argue that a majority of those 120,000 non violent drug offense cases are all unjustified? As well as the 450,000 violent crimes. One would need to review on a case by case basis. Which leads to a subjective question: How many proven unjustified cases for you, are enough to say that the criminal justice system are putting African Americans in prison based on race? We can hopefully agree that 1 is too many. But are 1, 10, 50, 100, or even 1000 proven unjustified cases enough to say that the system is rigged, racist, and full of white supremacists? And even if your subjective answer is 'yes, 50 out of 120,000 is enough'. That still doesn't give you any reason to use the word 'Mass'. If anything, it is Minor Incarceration. And let's go even further and say you went with 'yes, 10,000 out of 120,000 is enough'. Prove it. Show the evidence that 10,000 cases were wrongly sent to prison. Or that 10,000 were given harsher sentences than that of a different race. Not only that, but to take this just a step further. There are roughly 3,300 judges in the US. Coincidentally, by race, is distributed quite evenly with their population. 71% of those judges are White, and 14% of those judges are African American. So minus about 500 of those African American judges from 3,300 as individuals that would target someone of their own race. So now we have 2,800. But let's minus the other minority judges and simply focus on the supposed evil White Supremacist. Which would be about 2,300. Ok, so would you say that these 2,300 judges are all racist white Republicans for example? Or maybe, just maybe some of them are Democrats. You cannot really find online the affiliations because most judges are supposed to be unbiased. But let's say we just cut it in half to be fair. 1,150 judges. Would you accuse 1,150 judges for being racist Republican White Supremacists ? If so, how can you prove that? Are you not only going to go case by case with the 2% African American population, and see if those cases were unjustified, as well as see which judges were the ones responsible? If the jury was involved, are you going to go case by case with each jury member to find out if they were racist? Keep in mind the country is divided roughly half and half in terms of party affiliation. The jury would most likely have Democrats and Republicans, or even Independents etc. This would cut the odds of racism. There is more, but I'll stop here to give my opponent the chance to address my argument. I'm curious to read the argument against this. (As a side note, none of my sources come from articles and media sites like Huff Po or NY Times. The statistics have either been looked up with a simple Google search or a Wikipedia page that you can find easily. But some of the math was done by me, because nothing online presented those types of statistics)