Is skin color the reason each individual was convicted? Does the tail wag the dog?

Really? That's your argument?

The situation is way too complicated for me to say anything intelligent about causes and effects beyond what I contend is the obvious: The system is punishing generation after generation of black families.

Nope. Just pointing out the ridiculousness of it.

Color has nothing to do with it. Hopelessness does. Raised on the streets without a father figure and no one to look up to but idiot thugs. Should be blaming the system at the source, not at incarceration.

Half baked education system, corrupt local governments and failure of policies. It takes a lot more then feel good laws, it takes the direct communities involvement.

Welfare is not the answer. Make it lucrative for legit business to move there without union or government leeching them dry. Let the communities grow from within.

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Did I say that?

Drugs dealers are no idiot thugs, the contrary I would say. They see an opportunity and grab it, unfortunately for most of them it's the only opportunity they can see. It's the American dream, capitalism at work: supply and demand, trickle down effect.

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I read that it is believed that there was a movement to incarcerate more for crimes that primarily involve black and poor people so they could not vote.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Nominated for the most ridiculous stretch of the week.

I heard a blind man reading a bumper sticker about how everything that I dont agree with is racist. or something like that.

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Poor people vote hardly anyway, why put them in jail?

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That's true but don't tell the Rs.

But a lot of black folks came out and voted for Barak who never voted before. I know numerous blacks who never used to vote. they figured it didn't matter who won they would get screwed over.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Okay. I believe you.

So what?

The problem isn't that different drugs have different laws governing their use.

The problem is drug laws.

No, it indicates a high proportion of people who are arrested for drugs are black. It does not ptove that they were arrested for drugs BECAUSE they were black.

Correlation is not causation.

... and white families.

Correlation is not causation.

Voting for race.

Forward.

If you view every thru the lens of racism, all you see will be racism. Its like a color filter that allows only light of a certain wavelength to come thru the lens.
Look to other factors---maybe even unpopular ones dating back to the days of Woodrow Wilson ( Our first racist President) Margret Sanger, and the Progressive movement. I know its tough, especially when you came thru school, and you were being so revolutionary and were taught that White racism was the cause of all that was evil. Consider that you might have been mis-educated.
as Bot is fond of reminding us, correlation is NOT causation-- I get up every morning, and THEN the sun rises.

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That's what my post shows.

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