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Being a minority has no bearing here: it’s just as tough on all humans.

Being a minority tends to mean in America that you have a higher chance of growing up in areas with bad education, poor economic situations, and higher crime rates.

These are all factors that lead people to poor mental health, to drug abuse, and subsequently to committing crimes (often to feed the addiction or due to poor education/limited opportunities).

These problems aren't necessarily just problems minorities experience, white communities in poverty-stricken areas of the US have exactly the same issues (See Detroit for instance). It's just that there's more poor minority communities than there are white communities.

We need to fix it for everyone, regardless of race.

>>Being a minority tends to mean in America that you have a higher chance of growing up in areas with bad education, poor economic situations, and higher crime rates.

So I guess that would change once the majority of minorities are Asian.

I think your focus should be socioeconomic status, not race.

The majority of minorities are not Asian and likely will not be anytime soon.

The point, minority status is not the cause of poor treatment by police, behavior and socioeconomic status is.

That's not true, actually. Statistically minorities fare worse in their encounters with the justice system.

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