Absolutely not and I am sorry if I made this impression! The kid could have been white, Asiatic, Hispanic, German, French , whatever that would not change anything. My point is that this judgment did not do any good to neither of these two kids. As I said in my previous post the boy will not learn from this experience. To the contrary he will think that drug dealing is not that bad after all and this is unfortunate since later it may be too late for him to learn. And as far as my daughter is concerned, what do you think a 17 years old girl could retain from this experience? That she can deal drug and get the same punishment. When you are 17 you still have so much to learn.