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Gir Draxon
leftist-rightie and rightist-leftie
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posted 08 June 2003 05:14 PM
quote: did u know there are more black males in US prisons than colleges?
So? More blacks committing crimes = more black convicts. Instead of looking at statistics like that, we should be adressing the reasons why there are more black criminals than one would expect. Crime rates will decrease as poverty and segregation decrease. Focus on the cause, not the problem. As for the voucher system, that is an issue of class-based snobbery, not racsism as I have not heard of the system prventing rich blacks from anything.
From: Arkham Asylum | Registered: Feb 2003
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Gir Draxon
leftist-rightie and rightist-leftie
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posted 08 June 2003 06:04 PM
quote: Originally posted by DrConway: Because poverty is more concentrated among blacks, the effect of the voucher system will be racist, even if the intent is not.
Statisical coincedence. I will agree that it is racist when a rich non-white runs into difficulties in the voucher system because of their race. As it stands, it is only classist.
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nonsuch
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posted 08 June 2003 08:42 PM
I'm getting at how the "statistical coincidence" came about. It's neither coincidental nor happenstance. A whole lot of legislation, selective law-enforcement, government funding and de-funding, employment and housing discrimination, concerted media vilification, scaremongering, weighted taxation, political manipulation, graft, fraud and general dishonesty went into creating that statistic.Yes, it's a good idea to focus on the cause. But then what? quote: the penalties are based on the drug in question- a poor black kid using cocaine powder would get far less punishment than a rich white kid who got caught with crack.
He can't fuggin' afford it! The lawmakers know this. Hence the law. Are we starting to see a connection yet?I almost forgot to comment on this quote: The other problem is that the rich people in the gated communities deprive governments of much-needed property tax revenues. This hampers their ability to backstop measures to end-run the rich guys
You pretty much have to cut out and ignore government, too, in order to get anything done. At this point, government (well, look at it!) is irrelevant to most people's lives. Tax revenues are not going into infrastructure, institutions or public welfare. Whatever useful public works are done are done by independent, unfunded, unapproved groups of citizens who say "The hell with those bozos; we want a safe park and we're making one." Nothing else in America works anymore.[ 08 June 2003: Message edited by: nonesuch ]
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