We're attempting to make amends for nearly three-hundred plus years of slavery, oppressing those black and brown people to whom you so disparagingly refer!
As always in the US, the pendulum swings 365 degrees in the opposite direction.
Nowadays, black and brown fellow felons (who are also citizens vs. those who are law abiding) are treated with kid gloves because mayors such as Adams, Lightfoot and others have made their complexion their protection. If someone is guilty of a knock-out attack on the subway etc. throw the book at 'em, regardless of their color.
America's never been a middle ground society; either one is a first-degree criminal or a sterling citizen, one or the other. As the middle class slowly deteriorates, the US is left with either the dirt poor or the filthy rich, little in the medium range, except perhaps in some cities.