Never has the phrase “I want to find this guy in a dark alley and beat the crap out of him” been so utterly appropriate and “reap-what-you-sow”.

Putting my rage aside, what better illustration of how white privilege works than this? American prisons are notoriously designed around punitive action, not rehabilitation, but this was a slap on the wrist, and a dainty slap at that. So now they’re releasing a unrehabilitated rapist back into the general population who has been implicitly told “Rape all you want–if you get caught, the worst you’ll have to deal with is a summer in jail.” Meanwhile, anyone who doesn’t share his background gets to feel the full force of the American penal system.