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kalikshama -> RE: Rick Parry: Climate Change is a Cult -- holds prayer rally for rain right after... (8/26/2011 11:14:16 AM)
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I'd agree that you would be more likely have a chance at incarceration. But not "just because" you might be black. More likely due to your attitude, and - perhaps - the culture in which you were raised. If someone acts like a punk, a gangster, a bad-ass and challenges an authority figure, simple human nature of those figures tends to give less benefit of the doubt. In other words, I get stopped for failure to register my car, I acknowledge the error, politely apologize and get a ticket that I then go and pay. Some people get stopped for failure to register their car, take their time about pulling over, insult the cop, act surly, resentful and furtive. The cop has them step out of the car, call the drug dogs, and then have to verbally and then physically restrain the stopped individual. That individual get arrested for assault, and goes to jail. When they are before the judge, they call him a "honky muther fucker" if he is white, or a "unca tom" if he is black. Judge decides that said individual would benefit from a little more butt fucking in the county jail and gives him a year. Same situation. Different responses. Attitude. Firm
I briefly did the books for a tow company in Western Massachusetts that got a lot of contracts due to DWB - Driving While Black. The cops from our predominantly white town would wait right over the town line. If I were pulled over under those circumstances, I might have an attitude, as did the black Harvard professor arrested for "breaking into" his own home.
However, I, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, disagree with your "attitude" premise.
http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/children-at-risk
Across the country, thousands of children are languishing in abusive prisons and jails. These youths are disproportionately African American and Latino. Most live in poverty.
Many of these children were needlessly pushed out of school and into the juvenile justice system. But schools are just one entry point to the juvenile justice system – a system that too frequently cuts short the life chances of the young people it’s supposed to serve. Many youths are criminalized because of their experiences with failing foster care and mental health systems. Children and teens of color are imprisoned at almost three times the rate of their white counterparts – suggesting that they are often unfairly targeted for arrest and confinement.
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