Different Justice System

Rollingstone put up an article online about how messed up it is that banksters never go to jail (go ahead and CLICK HERE TO READ IT )
Though it isn't something I expanded on, I made sure to include social justice as one of my issues in my 2010 campaign for congress. It's a tricky thing to go into without going into race because the system disproportionately affects minorities.
While I am not dismissing that there are racists and that many of the people going to jail are victims of racism, I believe a bigger issue (and one we can more easily do something about), is class-ism. Most minorities in jail are poor people. There are several reasons for this. A poor person often can't get a good lawyer. Poor people are often under educated. Poor people can't make large donations to politicians and poor people don't go to the same country club as the mayor or the chief of police.
Being black or mexican is a red flag for being disadvantaged in the eyes of those with incentives to oppress. As an example if there is a drug epidemic in a mostly minority neighborhood way the hell down in the triple digit number streets of Chicago's south side the cops will mostly stay out of there. If those drugs or the violence that comes with trafficking contraband spill into Beverly or other influencial neighborhood there will be a crack down. If the deaths from the violence makes the mayor "look soft on crime" there will be a crackdown.
On the other hand if a largely black organization with a drug problem is protected by money and influence, politicians throw up their hands and suddenly don't know what to do, as if to say "a crack down? What's that?"
For example when the drug is steroids and you have a bunch of baseball and football players using it there will be congressional hearings but not criminal investigations. Suddenly prosecuting the war on drugs isn't as important anymore.
If the powers that be actually cared about THE WAR ON DRUGS or THE RULE OF LAW there would have been sweeping arrests of professional athletes instead of hand-wringing over what to do about the bad example they are giving our kids.
The really messed up part is they calculate that working class and poor people will not re-elect them if they arrest their beloved sports icons but have no problem re-electing them if they arrests their neighbors and coworkers for the same or lesser crimes. And poor and working class people continue to prove them right even though steroids is a dangerous to society than the more aggressively prosecuted marijuana.
And it goes beyond drugs. As the article above points out Bernie Madoff only went to jail for what he did because he ripped off other rich people. When the masses are defrauded by the type of people Madoff swindled there isn't any prosecution.
Some social advantage can be expected. People of means will always find a way to beat the system. But that doesn't mean we have to accept blatant injustice.