> RoMunn wrote: > Sure, mostly for non-violent drug-related offenses. Too bad? Maybe, except > that young black men aren't the only ones selling drugs or doing drugs. They > are just disproportionately more likely to be jailed for it. That isn't > justice. It's Just Us, like Richard Pryor said. >
That's a correlation-does-not-equal-causation, in that it may not be their race that gets them jail - at least not outright. For example, let's assume 2 people come before the judge. One is repentant, is in college, and promises to get on with his life. The other curses out the judge. Obviously the latter goes to jail while the former goes free. If the 2nd person is black, and that happens 12 times in a row, should be say the Judge is racist because that's what the statistic says? No. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225911 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
