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To: ponder life
In the last few decades, several hundred men from the prison system have been released via DNA evidence. Most of them, you guessed it, are African Amercan.

And the hundreds of thousands still behind bars are, you guessed it, blacks.......

I'm sure you were about to post the statistics of how disproportionate the numbers of blacks involved in crime and those incarcerated are compared to the white community until the buzzer rang on your clothes dryer.......weren't you?

"White Guilt" is a mental condition, not a skin condition and it can only be cured by one willing to open their eyes to facts.

63 posted on 04/02/2012 5:36:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Hot Tabasco
What you're saying doesn't make mathematical sense. Yes, on the one hand, there a disproportionate number of black behind bars. But in terms of the absolute numbers of white and black, its about the same. Yet those that DNA exonerated were predominantly black.

If there million blacks and a million whites behind bars, the first group would represent say a larger population of blacks since there are more whites in this country.

But the number of men release by DNA as a result of false imprisonment, a majority were black. This has nothing to do with "White Guilt" as you put it. Rather, an indication, that while things have gotten better, people are still, by and large partial.

68 posted on 04/02/2012 10:36:13 PM PDT by ponder life
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