In attempt to not derail the other thread with unrelated topics I have brought a link to my last post;
http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3170779#3170779 in which I was talking about the unfair criminal justice system for minorities.
The following is a exerpt from a study which discusses this. I post it to show all this talk of unequal treatment is not just the product of a "poor pitiful me" attitude but a real situation in which most people know exist but do nothing about.
Quote:"Unequal treatment of minorities characterizes
every stage of the process. Black and Hispanic
Americans, and other minority groups as well,
are victimized by disproportionate targeting
and unfair treatment by police and other
frontline law enforcement officials; by racially
skewed charging and plea bargaining decisions
of prosecutors; by discriminatory sentencing
practices; and by failure of judges,
elected officials and other criminal justice policy
makers to redress the inequities that
become more glaring every day."4 (in referrence to) 4 Id., Executive Summary, p. 2.
http://www.vsb.org/docs/valawyermagazine/dec00dunnaville.pdf
I am not attempting to say that no one is ever guilty; just merely that there is an unequal treatment towards minorities which then makes up the unbalanced porportion of minorities in our prisons. Unless you believe that minorities just are born to break the laws more than whites; even the most hardened denier must admit that there is something to this state of affairs in our justice system.
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