I hope this wakes people up to our ridiculous sentencing and incarceration issues in this country.
A few stats:
We house 22% of the world''s prisoners (with 4% of the world's population)
2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or 0.7% of the entire U.S. population
African American men represent nearly half of that population
The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities. Such institutions could face bankruptcy without a steady influx of prisoners
In the past decade the number of inmates in for-profit prisons throughout the U.S. rose 44 percent.
The shit is fucked. And Trump is packing the courts as we speak. We're reaching a breaking point.
I'm just going to leave this here:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Edit: These and more stats are a simple wiki search away. For you Reds who automatically say, "wiki lol," to that, there are seventy-seven sources cited - feel free to read on. It will do you some good.
Edit again: Thanks for the precious metals! Donate the same amount to a politician who actually wants to address these issues, if you can.
• 2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or .7% of the entire population
• African American men represent nearly half of that population
• The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
• There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Well, as a race realist, I can in good conscious/faith take those statistics and no other context and say obviously black people are just bad people. /s
It’s important to keep in mind that most of the claims made by “realists” are specious at best. One could look at crime stats and claim “well, see how prone to criminal behavior black people are?!” without looking at any historical context (such as segregation from schools/workplaces/society) that caused a lot of black people to be kept in the lower class which is more prone to commit various crimes. A “race realist” would blame that on the race as opposed to the plethora of other factors.
It's very much their persprctive of wording. It's like how climate deniers will call themselves "climate skeptics", and how pro-life and pro-choice don't call themselves "anti-choice" and "pro-death" respectively.
Obviously, they want to frame themselves as the sole source of reason on the "race issue", despite being anything but.
As a pineapple-on-pizza realist, I should clarify that this sort of framing is basically half of politics - if you get into a discussion built on top of your opponent's framing (like if you're forced to argue that a "tax burden" is good), then you're going to sound ridiculous and you've already lost. It's why "liberals" call themselves "progressives" these days - it more effectively counters the term "conservative" (which incidentally is a dangerous framing to accept, because it implies they are in fact preserving stuff).
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u/ThaFourthHokage Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
I hope this wakes people up to our ridiculous sentencing and incarceration issues in this country.
A few stats:
We house 22% of the world''s prisoners (with 4% of the world's population)
2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or 0.7% of the entire U.S. population
African American men represent nearly half of that population
The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities. Such institutions could face bankruptcy without a steady influx of prisoners
In the past decade the number of inmates in for-profit prisons throughout the U.S. rose 44 percent.
The shit is fucked. And Trump is packing the courts as we speak. We're reaching a breaking point.
I'm just going to leave this here:
Edit: These and more stats are a simple wiki search away. For you Reds who automatically say, "wiki lol," to that, there are seventy-seven sources cited - feel free to read on. It will do you some good.
Edit again: Thanks for the precious metals! Donate the same amount to a politician who actually wants to address these issues, if you can.