Certainly not. Give them each a small gift and set them free.
for later
Never mind that blacks are 30 times more likely to COMMIT crimes than whites in Iowa.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
“You would think the disparities would be worse in the Old South states. But in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, where blacks make up larger portions of the population, they are only about three times more likely to be imprisoned than whites.”
Kind of blows a hole in his white racist theory. Don’t commit the crime and there’ll be no time.
Do the Crime, Do the Time... I Don’t give a Rats ASS what freaking color your skin is.
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Don’t do the crime. Won’t have to do the time.
Always excuses.
Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
Yeah, the prisons are sexist too. Over 90 percent of those in prison are male, when in a just society it should be 50-50.
And Asians are woefully under-represented.
If blacks, whites, asians et al would quit committing crimes we would not have to “stuff” prisons with anybody.
/SARC - Because if I don’t put it there some twit will think I’m serious!
Why isn’t it?
Um...it's the other way around. ;)
Agreed. Joe Arpaio's "tent cities" would be far preferable as far as accomodations are concerned. Add hard labor / chain gangs to that and we've got a winning ticket.
The racists among us, blatant and closeted, will be quick to attribute the imprisonment disparity to the misguided belief that African Americans are inherently prone to criminality
Denial ain't just a river in Africa.
It’s easy for anyone regardless of race or sex to stay out of prison: don’t do the crime and you won’t have to do the time. Everyone in prison today went through due process of the American legal system before they landed in the can. I have no sympathy for this “disparate impact” mumbo-jumbo excuse liberals trot out to explain why more black Americans are in prison.
I see no mention in the article of personal responsibility. Nor of unwed mothers who are almost always certain to live in poverty.
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.
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?