Posted on 07/24/2007 6:27:58 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
One of my four brothers graduated from the University of Iowa, but being an African American male, I don't think I want to spend too much time in the Hawkeye State. Only about 2 percent of Iowa's population is African American, but blacks are 13.6 times more likely than whites to be imprisoned there. That's more than twice the national average, which is bad enough
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Okay let me ask you this how is it that 1/3 of the US population is 80 percent in prison? A coincedence? Racial profiling?
Yes it is.
It’s the only viable solution until the day comes when American blacks finally get their collective heads out of their collective as*, and start acting like civilized human beings who actually give a good Go*damn about their own futures, the futures of their children, and the ultimate fate of their own race.
I posted this the other day, but, according to the Census Bureau (as of 2000), due to increasing rates of black-on-black murder, the incarceration of nearly 2 million black men, the scurges of poverty and out-of-wedlock birth, higehr rate sof drug and alcohol abuse, higher deathr ates from cancer, diabetes and heart disease, American blacks will cease to become a “statistically-significant” portion of the population by 2055 (possibly 2060).
In the meantime, they will have been overtaken by Asians, Middle Easterners and Hisapnics, not just in terms of percentage of the population, but in terms of personal income, economic opportunity, and political clout.
The issue is not “oppressive white society” locking up innocent black men who don’t have any other option: it’s about American black realizing that they are committing cultural suicide but refusing to take advantage of all the benefits of American life that are available to them, the primary ones being education, equality under the law, and freedom.
ML/NJ
Yes, I suspect that many of the same traits that increase someone’s likelihood of staying in poverty are the same traits that increase someone’s likelihood of committing crimes. Especially in this day and age when anyone can get a decent education if they want one, and there are many ways for someone who is motivated to move up in socioeconomic class.
susie
If 11% of the population nation wide commits the vast majority of the crime (mostly on their own race), what do they expect others to do, ignore it?
I like the gift idea! :)
I would post something here, but I’ll refrain. I will say I don’t think they are in there for DUI.
I believe that he could have put a period right there and ended the article.
He evidently didn't study "cause / effect" relationships in school himself.
All of these articles have the flavor that all these guys were walking down the street, on the way to Sunday school... when a UFO teleported them to their prison cells.
So, he’s an “African American”, eh? I’m certainly impressed. I’ve never met one of them before. I wonder what part of Africa he’s from.
In the Old West, Yuma Prison was so awful, the bad guys never wanted to return. Make prison bad enough and morons won’t be as anxious to commit crimes.
China doesn’t have major problems with crime, wonder why?
LOL!
This mindset is exactly why some are at the bottom of the socio-economic barrel. . .and apt to stay that way.
Nothing but excuses.
Now this piece is wall to wall nonsense.
I’m an Appalachian American (but I wasn’t born here..) :^)
Yes ... but ... stuffing prisons with felons is a way to reduce crime and, if they happen to be black men ... fine with me. I want criminals in prison no matter what color they are.
So, to paraphrase: “It’s all Whitey’s fault!”
/s
These incarceration statistics were released last week by the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy group that promotes alternatives to prison.
Maybe all-expense paid cruises would be a better alternative, eh?
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