[davisfh]

"Young black men are a disproportionate number of the inmates."

Unfortunately, they commit a disproportionate number of the crimes. I don't understand how that is difficult to understand.

[fight_truth_decay]

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution legalizes these practices by adopting the exception: slavery and forced labor are not prohibited from being applied "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

Add this to your post of :"Young black men are a disproportionate number of the inmates." Unfortunately, they commit a disproportionate number of the crimes. I don't understand how that is difficult to understand.

[green team 1999]

Unfortunately, they commit a disproportionate number of the crimes.

and they do the crime against their own people.

[LaraCroft]

No as the quote says, blacks and whites commit the SAME crime, white gets probation, black gets jail. Whats so difficult to understand about that being wrong?

"Among young people who have never been to a juvenile prison, blacks are more than six times as likely as whites to be sentenced by juvenile courts to prison time, according to a 2000 report, "And Justice for Some," issued by the Justice Department and several foundations. For those charged with drug offenses, black youths are 48 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to juvenile prisons, the report said. "

[Anamensis]

Thing is, most black criminals hurt black victims. If the larger society doesn't do anything, it has a "as long as they're only doing it to each other" flavor to it. Oh well, I know... it's Cynthia Tucker. No sense getting my shorts in a wad.