Thanks, that is an interesting point about sentencing that I was not aware of. It is interesting that in the prison population, White groups are under-represented (compared to the population), but it is also true that females are under-represented. [1]. I agree that it is partly about how data are segmented, and probably also about equity is considered (i.e. in the process of sentencing vs across the life course).

I concede the point about sentencing (but not incarceration rates), I suppose some other examples of the institutional sexism and racism I was thinking of would be things like:

- There is a broad gender pay gap (14 to 24%) across the US workforce, even when controlling for variables such as part-time work and parenthood[2] - Fortunte 500 CEOs are 70% white male, whereas the US population is about ~36% male, (based 73% white total). [3] - Government over-represents white males, e.g. about 78% of the House/Senate combined are White and and 24% women [4,5], although this is getting better

My worry is that (political party notwithstanding) some people will interpret single incidents like this as evidence of broad "reverse discrimination." While that is true in this single incident, it does not seem to be true in society considered more holistically.

Thanks again for pointing this out.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/818001/rate-of-imprisonm... [2]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-019-00743-8 [3] https://thesocietypages.org/specials/fortune-500-ceos-2000-2... [4] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/08/for-the-fif... [5] https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/slideshows/116th-congre...