Posted on 06/27/2019 8:12:42 AM PDT by PeaRidge
Did I hear Cory Booker correctly?
Correct me if I am wrong, I think I heard him say that the number of imprisoned blacks now being held exceeds the total number of slaves just before the war.
According to data sources, this year the total US prison population is approx. 2.3 million people. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html
According to the US Census of 1860, the total number of slaves at that time was 3.9 million.
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html
If I am correct, would someone contact the media for a correction. lol
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Truth isn’t even in their dictionary.
Fact and Democrats may mix but they don’t adhere. Racist see race as the reason for incarceration and not justice being done.
He was including the millions of Slaves that were thrown overboard during the Atlantic crossings.
Can’t remember which Black Congressional Caucus Moron said that.
You could walk to Europe on their floating Bodies without getting the bottom of your feet wet..
What a Dog-Bites-Man headline.
Fake but accurate.
Interestingly, though his numbers may have been wildly off, the core point is a good one. I also think the idea that many slaves had it better than a lot of blacks in the inner city have it.
And I blame the democrats for all of it.
This relates:
In the book, 1984, your TV is watching you and you can’t turn it off. Today, your TV, cellphone, computer all watch you and you CAN turn it off, but you don’t, because it brings benefits.
It’s how I look at the black inner city. They have it no better than black slaves had it, but they are free to leave, except they don’t because they don’t believe they are free to leave. And they like their welfare checks. So, at the end of the day, they MIGHT AS WELL be slaves.
The msm doesn't "fact check" Dems, they don't want everyone to know they are all total nincompoops.
Facts and Demos...
Good line.
Actually, the amount of blacks* currently living who have felony records far exceeds the total amount of slaves between 1622 and 1865. Remember, about 40% of felons still under the jurisdiction of the court are not incarcerated (pre-trial, parole, probation).
But to be frank, this actually STIFLES the fact that slavery was a “major impediment” to the advancement of blacks. By that logic, Asians would be at the bottom of the heap, rather than EXCEEDING those of whites, let alone non-white minorities, as “coolies” were just as enslaved (indentured, technically) as blacks were in a pragmatic sense.
But I digress. Sparticus can’t even get his T-Bone in gear, let alone spout rational discourse.
Sorry, asterisked *blacks.
Walter Williams, Thomass Sowell, Clarence Thomas, and Burgess Owens all detest the term “African American” so I will join these intellectual and spiritual giants by using the term “black” myself.
Just one of many, many fake statistics thrown around last night.
Cory Booker can’t even be honest about his sexuality. Sheesh. Accurate facts about slavery -NEVER gonna happen
LOL!
Funny you should mention that.
There was a blind gossip item that was clearly about Booker.
When Mayor Pete started to get all of that (positive) attention, Booker considered coming out.
But he wussed out, because he got scared that it wouldn't really help him, especially in the black community.
Booker, the DUNCE, LIES every time he opens his BIG mouth.
(I believe that it’s possible that he’s DIM-witted enough to believe his hysterical foolishness.)
Yours, TMN78247
Yep and sharks were so well fed their bellies burst causing spontaneous combustion and the seas afire from Cape Verde to the West Indies
388,000 slaves imported into the US and colonies and that became 4 million by the beginning of the civil war. In 1807 importation of slaves was illegal in the United States. The biological cohort of slaves grew 10 times which is an almost unheard of number if you think about the conditions.
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