There is more racism towards white people than black people.

It is honestly surprising that someone would coin and publish this resolution. Its that rare kind of, "hit you in the face with a frying pan" offensive. Given the attitude so heavily implied by the affirmative position, I have to come out the gate with a kritik. Kritik; the affirmative position advocates ignorance, ignores robustly established harms and entrenches racism. The initial description of the resolution offered by the Aff was a complaint about disproportionate public outcry when a crime, ostensibly a violent one, is committed against a racial minority. The reality is that justice has historically been disproportionally dispensed in America on a basis of race. African Americans are statistically more likely to be unfairly targeted by police and processed in the criminal justice system. They are more likely to receive a harsh sentence than white Americans. They are more likely to receive the death penalty when capital punishment is on the table. They are also more likely to be mistreated by law enforcement, and harmed by them. All of this is robustly established and the affirmative seems to be in the dark, or has a massive misunderstanding of what racism means. White people are more likely to receive lighter sentences for the same crime and less likely to be targeted by police. Conservative white Americans are the agents that circulate fiction regarding "Black-on-black crime," and spread the disgusting myth. A glaring, but sadly not singular example of white Americans deliberately devaluing black Americans and attempting to deprive them of justice. That's just sick! Moreover accepting the analysis prescribed by the affirmative further entrenches the racism described above. The Aff would have us believe that the situation is not what is described above and draw your attention away from racism in our justice system, and society in general. Regardless of what they think, what they are advocating is a point of view that puts an inherent premium on the lives and circumstances of white folks while diminishing the significance of harms against African Americans. The affirmative should loose the ballgame right here. Observations: OB 1: Institutional injustice of the gavel and badge: The is basically a restatement of the support/examples brought up in the K. What's more is that these facts are robustly established. White Americans are not institutionally disproportionately harmed by the criminal justice system. Black Americans are. OB 2: Public outcry: If the affirmative had a better appreciation for the realities of racism in America, they would likely see the public outcry under a very different light; justifiable and about damn time. Because of the history of racism in America the process of ridding our country of it is slow going a best. There was a century between the 13th amendment and the civil rights act. And while the status quo today is better than the Jim Crow era, the problem has by no measure been thoroughly remedied. What's more is that technology has made it easier than ever to illuminate examples of racial injustice than ever before. Consider the case of the dash camera that caught Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke brutally murdering Laquan McDonald. The truly disturbing aspect of this case is wondering what is worse, the murder itself or the entrenched practice of the Chicago police dept to try and cover it up. It took department leaks to the press and ultimately a court order to release the video footage that made clear Van Dyke had massively overstepped his authority, and in fact had arguably commit a hate crime. This was standard operating procedure for Chicago police. One has to wonder how many Laquan McDonald's have never been brought to public light. Are we then surprised at the outcry? I'm not, in fact I join them in shouting out disgust and injustice. After all, this is not a case of one private citizen killing another and trying to dodge justice. This is our justice institution killing a civilian and trying to cover it up for the sake of the Chicago PD. It's despicable, and given the statistical facts of a racist justice system and the cruel reality of some whites devaluing black Americans and trying to deprive them of justice, we CANNOT divorce our observation of police misconduct like Van Dyke's from institutional racism. It's not merely a problem with bad cops. Its an entrenched reality that police treat black Americans worse than white Americans. In order to offer anything worth considering the Affirmative would have to show that white Americans suffer MORE harms than described above specifically because they are white. Vote your conscience, vote for egalitarianism, vote Negative!!