Yes, I am white. In fact, my family hails from the Caucasus mountains in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Which, incidentally, is completely irrelevant to the point I was making.
You're the second idiot under my original comment to make this same argument, and it's every bit as ignorant and stupid as it sounds. It's nothing more than empty pandering to the head-bobbers in the comment section who are apparently willing to agree with anything as long as it confirms what they already believe.
Yes, there are significant elements of systemic racism in the federal judicial system and in the judicial systems of many individual states. That is an entirely legitimate subject for discussion. But the existence of systemic racism does not mean that the United States justice system, as a whole, simply favors white people over people of color in every circumstance or that every individual interaction with the justice system can be reduced to race.
The American judicial system is a massive, chaotic machine made up of millions of people, millions of individual decisions, thousands of courts, and an enormous body of laws and procedures. It is physically incapable of producing perfectly consistent outcomes. Judges make mistakes. Prosecutors make mistakes. Defense attorneys make mistakes. Police officers make mistakes. Jurors make mistakes. Sometimes people receive excessive sentences, sometimes innocent people are convicted, and sometimes prejudice absolutely influences the outcome. None of that is particularly controversial.
But neither is the fact that, in general, the system does exactly what it is designed to do: determine guilt and impose punishment on people who have been found guilty under the law. My personal experience of receiving fair treatment through that system does not somehow become invalid because I happen to be white.
And this bizarre assumption that “the judicial system was kind to you, therefore you must be white” is not an argument. It's an intellectually lazy attempt to dismiss someone's actual experience without knowing anything about it.
If you want to discuss racial disparities in the American justice system, I'm perfectly happy to have that conversation. Bring statistics, case law, sentencing data, or credible research. But responding to an individual account with “you're white, so of course the system treated you well” isn't analysis. It's just racial stereotyping dressed up as social commentary.