Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Racism and prisons

"When pushed to explain this racial disparity, most people take comfort in the popular myth of American justice--that only the guilty get arrested, charged, and incarcerated. It's obvious: more blacks than whites are arrested and put in jail because they commit more crimes. Americans can't conceive of it any other way because racism is the issue we refuse to acknowledge." More...

The article is anecdotal, but true.

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