{"id":108849,"date":"2013-07-16T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/108849\/not-pretty-is-it-but-look-anyways\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:51:30","slug":"not-pretty-is-it-but-look-anyways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/108849\/not-pretty-is-it-but-look-anyways\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT PRETTY IS IT, BUT LOOK ANYWAYS……….."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>How could any of this be deemed Pretty ?<\/p>\n

1. A black male born in 2001 has a 32% chance of spending some portion of his life in prison. A white male born the same year has just a 6% chance. [ Sentencing Project]<\/p>\n

2. In major American cities, as many as 80% of young African-American men have criminal records. [Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow]<\/p>\n

3. African-Americans who use drugs are more than four times as likely to be incarcerated than whites who use drugs. African Americans constitute 14% of the population and 14% of monthly drug users. But African-Americans respresent 34% of those arrested for a drug offense and 53% of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense. [ American Bar Association]<\/p>\n

4. In seven states, African Americans constitute 80% or more of all drug offenders sent to prison. [Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow]<\/p>\n

5. Black students are three and a half times as likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers. One in five black boys recieve an out-of-school suspension. Education Secretary Arne Duncan who commissioned the study, said \u201cThe undeniable truth is that the everyday education experience for too many students of color violates the principle of equity at the heart of the American promise.\u201d [ New York Times]<\/p>\n

6. Black youth who are referred to juvenile court are much more likely to be detained, referred to adult court or end up in adult prison than their white counterparts. Blacks represented 28% of juvenile arrests, 30% of referrals to juvenile court, 37% of the detained population, 35% of youth judicially waived to criminal court and 58% of youth admitted to state adult prison. [ National Council on Crime And Deliquency]<\/p>\n

7. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.[Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow]<\/p>\n

n 2004, the Amerian Bar Association created a commission which produced recommendation to address \u201c racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system.\u201d Thus far, their recommendations have been largely ignored in much of the country.<\/p>\n

source
\n http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/7-ways-zimmerman-mindset-permeates-americas-criminal-justice-system<\/p>\n

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After all the opinions that DL has heard in this American tragedy this guy is the closest to what I feel .
\n Now of course that doesn’t make me happy ……, ( he’s a right wing conservative for Gawd’s sake, and I seldom agree with them….but this time I did ) , but it does make me feel honest about my feelings on the case, and further it does make me hopeful that with some effort on both sides of our racial divide that one day we may take the necessary steps in making a valid attempt to bridge that gap.
\n What ever side you come down on……..
\n A young man is dead, and a country is in chaos once again over what many people once considered an issue over and done with by the simple election of the first African American POTUS.
\n Did you really think it would be that easy…..?????
\n C’mon get realistic now.
\n It’s still here.
\n Once Again America fooled itself, and once again America must
\n accept those consequences, and work on a real solution to the great racial divide,
\n that is now staring us all right in the face….again.<\/p>\n

But your saying to yourself now….”This Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman case had nothing to do with white on black , or black on white crime….for gawds sake Zimmerman is Hispanic ” .<\/p>\n

So I am supposed to take some comfort in that fact ?
\nIs it the colors that we should be looking at as the cause, or is it the fact of our inability to not see those very colors as the central issue that we just cannot\u00a0 seem
\nget over.<\/p>\n

There should be no celebrating\u00a0 here in any context what so ever.<\/p>\n

We damn well should be Weeping\u00a0 !<\/p>\n

DL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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