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There's discrimination, then there's discrimination
I have always maintained that I will ride with any partner who passed the same tests I did. I don’t know why a higher percentage of whites passed those tests - and neither does the city. Throwing out an unpopular test under political pressure when you don’t understand the results is wrong - and stupid. Maybe the whites had more time on the job and ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by SocialWriter on May 28, 2009
Re: Allen Iverson
That's just it. They do NOT lock up white people. In the US, jails are for blacks and Latinos. Period US blacks are one eighth the population and half the prisons and jails. Latinos are another quarter and rising. Native Americans have the highest incarceration rate of all. Makes one question the legitimacy of the entire judicial and ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by bruce.dixon on September 25, 2007