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Five Myths of the 'Racist' Criminal Justice System

FishingBuddy Wrote: Apr 20, 2012 8:12 AM
What a great article Larry. I am going to copy and paste it into a Word file and save it for when my liberal family comes for a visit. I wonder if racism will ever end in the U.S. Of course it will always exist to some extent but most whites, even in the south really don't care. Now it seems to be the race baiters from the black community that keep it going. I remember watching a documentary on 20/20 years. It was about black kids in school who put down other black kids who studied. When someone would try to get good grades they would say, "Hey, are you trying to be white". At that point, I began to question if it would even be possible to overcome our racial differences. I no longer have any answers, only questions.

Calling America's criminal justice system "racist" is not confined to "civil rights leaders" like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, said it, too. Blacks and whites, said Obama, "are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates (and) receive very different sentences ... for the same crime."

When the man who became president of the United States says this -- the No. 1 law enforcement officer -- it must, therefore, be true.

Let's examine five major assumptions behind this assertion.

1) Blacks are arrested at higher rates compared to...

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