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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 01:08 PM Original message |
Study shows racial disparities in prison: blacks imprisoned 5 times rate of whites |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Now think hard, which race do you think steals the most money from the US population? |
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ninkasi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 01:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Exactly right |
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conspirator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 07:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
28. white collar crime pays. Only blue collar criminals go to jail n/t |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. what a shock! |
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Socal31 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. Instead of figuring out the root causes... |
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youngdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 03:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. You got it. |
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Laughing Mirror (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 03:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. The root causes are poverty & injustice |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 04:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Thanks for saying it |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 04:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. What causes poverty, poor innercity schools, gangs, stacked legal systems? |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 06:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Most crimes in the U.S. are committed by white people |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. The root cause of crime might be poverty, etc. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 03:22 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. Because you are the victim of institutional racism? |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 09:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
29. poor white people. they suffer so much in threads like these. |
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silverojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 03:40 AM Response to Reply #4 |
33. You're absolutely right |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. Is this a product to Race or Economics (IT seems ot be the alter. |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 03:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I think you've hit the nail on the head. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 02:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. If I knew I be advocating it. |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 03:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. It also doesn't help that black people are more likely to have harsher sentences |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 01:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. But is that a Factor of Race or that blacks tend to be poorer than Whites? |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 04:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Get real. Google "racial profiling", and think about unequal "justice" by legislative |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 01:15 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. I mentioned Race as a Factor, but economics seems to be a larger Factor |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 03:01 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. "In the South it may be economics not race"??? You must have a good eye to notice |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 03:09 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. The statistics paint a picture of a profoundly racist country. |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-20-07 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. Hasn't this been true.......for about 200 years? |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 02:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. No, Modern Prison Idea is only from the 1829. |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 03:06 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. From the early 1600s, weren't virtually ALL African-Americans slave laborers? 400 years |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 01:33 AM Response to Reply #22 |
31. But we are talking about PRISON and Blacks, not slavery |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 02:56 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. How to test a sensible "economic" explanation of state racial incarceration rate ratios |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 08:27 AM Response to Reply #32 |
37. From the Sentencing Project: state-state info |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 07:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
36. Watch ANY film footage from the 20's-the 50's..and most prisoners are white |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
16. Jails, for the most part, are for non-white/collar criminals. |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
23. People who think this is JUST economics are missing the point. |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 07:19 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Economic oppression has always been the elephant in the room |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
26. It begins in public schools |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 07:39 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. And worsens as kids age; Of youths accused of drug crimes, 48 TIMES |
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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-21-07 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
30. And...what are the BASERATE of violent crimes between white and black? |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-22-07 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
35. Your Drug War At Work |
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toopers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
38. The South did surprisingly well in this survey . . . |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-23-07 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
39. Surprise! |
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