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MSNBC GUEST: PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
Breitbart ^ | 11/8/15 | TRENT BAKER

Posted on 11/08/2015 11:07:25 AM PST by Impala64ssa

Southern Coalition for Social Justice senior staff attorney Daryl Atkinson appeared Saturday as a guest on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” to talk President Obama’s executive order to “ban the box,” which refers to the section on a job application for criminal history.

According to Atkinson, people with a criminal background “face legal discrimination in many areas of life”

“The president’s action on Monday really affirms values that we hold dear in this country. Values like inclusion and equal opportunity for all people because people with records face legal discrimination in many areas of life. The 65 million Americans, one in three adult Americans, that have criminal record history, face barriers in employment, housing, education; even volunteering in their children’s school.”

“Because African-Americans and Latinos are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, it results in the social and economic exclusion similar to the Jim Crow South,” he added

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cryracism; melissaharrisperry
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Actions have consequences.


21 posted on 11/08/2015 12:06:49 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I can think of a whole lot of crimes women would love to know about when meeting that new hunk.

Thanks to Obama, that may be near impossible soon.

One more perk the Democrats have unloaded on Women.


22 posted on 11/08/2015 12:06:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. (Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: Impala64ssa

They should all be given jobs making little rocks out of big rocks with a sledge hammer.


23 posted on 11/08/2015 12:07:49 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: Impala64ssa
MSNBC GUEST: PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST

For once, I agree with MSNBC.

Overturn all those discriminatory gun laws.

24 posted on 11/08/2015 12:09:51 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: Safetgiver
Look what Obama has done - again. Now it's wrong to hold someone’s criminal actions against them.

I think Obama is against every tenant of our traditional culture - everything that has made us a relatively successful culture.

Next we won't have to stop at red lights. Obama would probably be happy at the ensuing chaos.

25 posted on 11/08/2015 12:11:32 PM PST by Aria
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To: Aria

You break the law and you lose some of those privilages of being considered a “model citizen”.


26 posted on 11/08/2015 12:13:04 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: Impala64ssa

Liberals are experts at giving the word “discrimination” a bad name.


27 posted on 11/08/2015 12:13:26 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The left really doesn’t think that minorities should ever be imprisoned, prosecuted or arrested. Laws are a figment of a racist power structure and are unfair.
As long as the underclass is rising up to overthrow their oppressors, they can do no wrong.


28 posted on 11/08/2015 12:14:28 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Impala64ssa

discrimination is good. discrimination is needed to tell good from bad. Being arrested is bad. One has to get to the elementary school level with these people.


29 posted on 11/08/2015 12:21:25 PM PST by plain talk (anks.)
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To: Impala64ssa

” disproportionately represented “ thats macro microagression!!!


30 posted on 11/08/2015 12:24:50 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Makes more sense than discriminating against Christians.


31 posted on 11/08/2015 12:28:05 PM PST by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Geee.... maybe we should be teaching the little thugs in school that a criminal record WILL get you discriminated against and there is nothing you can do about it except DON’T GET IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW!!!!!

Seems like it would be a great tool in preventing crime.

This is discrimination based on your skin. This is based off you character.


32 posted on 11/08/2015 12:35:36 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Impala64ssa

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/24/former-worker-charged-in-slayings-2-employees-family-dollar-store-in-michigan/?intcmp=obinsite


33 posted on 11/08/2015 12:53:49 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Impala64ssa

Jeez, imagine a retail business not wanting to hire somebody after they did 10 years for armed robbery. Gosh, what is the world coming to? That’s as horrible as a pharmacy not wanting to hire a guy who did time for drug trafficking.

For the people decrying this, ask them if they’d have that person in their house watching their kids, and watch how fast they shut up.


34 posted on 11/08/2015 1:08:26 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: Impala64ssa

There is nothing to keep these do-gooders from starting a business and hiring whoever they want to but I imagine their feelings would change in that case.


35 posted on 11/08/2015 1:11:13 PM PST by Kenny500c
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To: Impala64ssa

I haven’t committed any crime and I can’t get any job. I certainly don’t want to be competing with people who’ve robbed, raped, and stabbed their fellow humans.


36 posted on 11/08/2015 1:12:46 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Chode

hell, a LOT of HR simply look for gaps in employment history and throw out all those that have them.


This must be why no one will hire me. I took 20 years off to raise kids.


37 posted on 11/08/2015 1:13:56 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Kenny500c

The real irony is that the biggest complainers are limousine liberals that would be offended to walk on the same side of the street as these criminals. But they want you to bring them into your house and business and treat them like their crimes never happened.


38 posted on 11/08/2015 1:19:48 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: Impala64ssa
"According to Atkinson, people with a criminal background face legal discrimination in many areas of life."

Amazing ....

39 posted on 11/08/2015 1:24:35 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Impala64ssa

Yes, and for a very good reason.


40 posted on 11/08/2015 2:13:04 PM PST by TBP (with the wrong hand)
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