There is a great deal of data that show that whites receive shooter sentences for drug crimes than blacks.
Could be race or just about who can hire a better lawyer.
Or there wasn’t violence involved?
Or it could be that whites, on average, just don’t get in as much trouble as other communities.
Generally speaking, unless you have done a serious crime, judges tend to give lenient sentences for first time offenders.
It’s when you start to get to the point of being a first name basis with the bailiff do judges start to come down hard.
Can you post a link to some of that fabled data?