-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to assume from the context that you see some connection between the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which addresses civil rights, and the number of blacks on death row and in prisons, which has nothing to do with civil rights and everything to do with criminal > activity that has been successfully prosecuted.
Mario, Blacks make up 12% of the population in the US. They also make up 50% of the people in jail in the US. (See the link to NAACP) I have been in grade schools in the ghettos of Alabama. These schools, run by blacks, are consistently producing illiterate graduates. The reason this is happening is because the schools do not get funding from local, state and federal governments. I have seen classrooms with 45 kids. These kids are being deprived of the services (civil rights?) available to those outside the ghetto. Education is the key. It does not mater if the classroom with 45 kids is in India, Tanzania or the US. As long as a child is in that class, you are putting that child's future at risk. It is a very quick spiral from being not qualified for a job, to being not able to secure any job, to being in prison. The US spends $33,000 per year to keep each prisoner in jail. It cost $6,000 per year to keep a student in college. The NAACP has being trying to get more funds for schools in poorer districts, but are denied at almost all levels. > What am I missing here? A lot. You also seemed to have missed the race riots that went on in your home town of Toledo, Ohio. Mervyn3.0 http://www.naacp.org/programs/prison/prison_index.html __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
