[Zhang Fei]

[I feel sorry for the 98% of people with darker pigment of their skin have to live with the blatant lifestyle of the 2% that give everyone else a bad rap.]

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1/3 of black males have felony records. These are the charges that stuck all the way to conviction. Decent chance that more than half are felons, only a good chunk got away. This is why the vast majority of blacks favor lighter sentences - self-interest.

[bdfromlv]

when congress got rid of 3 strike rules, crime went up, most of those felons had 4 or 5 lesser felony and misdemeanors that were trashed to save the prosecution and court money and would have added nothing to the sentences but skew the statistics to say crime is down.