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Since Whites Are 74% of Drug Sellers and Users, And Blacks are 15%, WHY Are Blacks The Majority of The Ones In Prison for it.
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When you racist wonder why in america Blacks(Browns) has a high number of BROKEN HOMES with single parent households, out of wedlock births etc.
When you wonder why poor areas in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, St louis, new orleans, etc has a high crime rate, JUST LOOK AT STATS LIKE THIS AS THE ROOT CAUSE!
Over 70% of blacks in prison are there FOR WEED CHARGES, NOT hardcore drugs, nor VIOLENCE like the racist would like to believe!
Yet another example of racist white supremacy and WHY BLACKS BLAME WHITES!
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[link to www.politifact.com]
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
Arianna Huffington
on Sunday, July 26th, 2009 in This Week with George StephanopoulosArianna Huffington calls drug imprisonment rates for blacks disproportionateHalf-TrueShare this story:
In another example of how the arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has driven pundits to talk about issues of race and crime, Arianna Huffington, the founder of the liberal Huffington Post news Web site, offered some statistics about race, drug use and incarceration during a July 26, 2009, roundtable on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos .
Huffington said, "It is really stunning that only 15 percent of the total drug population — drug offending population is African-American. And yet you have 74 percent of them who wind up in jail." A staffer for Huffington clarified her point: African-Americans make up 15 percent of drug users, but 74 percent of drug offenders sentenced to prison. Her comment echoed longstanding calls by critics of U.S. drug policy and criminal sentencing guidelines. These critics have argued that blacks are unfairly targeted by U.S. drug laws as well as the ways those laws are enforced. So we decided to dig into Huffington’s numbers to see if they were correct.
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