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>>15628766
1350 is usually just a response to people decrying the US justice system as unfair because black people are so much more likely to end up in prison than white people. People posting these stats are just trying to show that higher rates of incarceration in some groups are due to higher rates of criminality, not a racist justice system.
I'm sure (most of) the people posting those stats support civil rights, and aren't calling for genocide or anything, just defending the justice system as not completely broken. I think society agrees that we'd all like to change the fact that so many black people are in jail. Unfortunately, because we aren't allowed to state the basic fact that different races commit crimes at different rates without being called racist, we can't look past an allegedly broken justice system to see that the way to fix the problem is to change the circumstances of black communities to try and prevent them from committing so much crime.
Instead people are only allowed to think that everyone is the same, so if one group is in jail more than another it's because police are bad and we need to police the black community less.