Mass Black Incarceration is White Societal Aggression
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We can prove that the system is racist throught the uniformity of results, and that it is intended to be racist. The mass incarceration of African Americans is historically comparable only to the treatment of Gypsies in Eastern Europe. Gypsies were also enslaved until the mid-19th century, and are generally not considered by most ethnic Hungarians and Romanians to be true citizens of these nations. Europeans lie and obfuscate about the “complexities” and “intractability” of the Gypsy “problem,” which stubbornly persisted through generations of command-economy and Soviet dominance in the East, and under dictatorships and democracies on the Iberian peninsula. Few Europeans will admit that the problem is that Hungarians and Romanians have always hated and persecuted Gypsies, and still do. Spain exploits and co-opts Gypsy culture, but values the actual people less than other citizens. The logic of hate leads to predictable results, as we wrote in ’s inaugural issue, April 5, 2002:
“Hungary's beleaguered Gypsies, or Roma, constitute 5% of the population but account for around 60% of the nation's male prison inmates. The penal system of Romania, home to the world's largest concentration of Gypsies, appears to have been designed mainly for the purpose of keeping the Roma out of circulation. In Spain, the descendants of the women who bequeathed Flamenco dancing to humanity represent just 1.5% of the population, yet comprise 25% of female prisoners.”In the United States, mass incarceration of Blacks is national policy. This is an obvious and provable fact – otherwise there would not be such uniformity of practice throughout this vast country. The disparity-creating process begins with the intake system, which instructs police to observe, stop and interrogate Black people with far greater frequency and intensity than whites. Those whites unfortunate enough to brush up against the criminal justice system intake machinery, are disproportionately spit back out without being charged with an offense. The pool Blackens, as police attach more severe and numerous crimes to the Black “offenders” in custody. Prosecutors further cull wayward whites from the herd through lenient application of statutes, and by pursuing less harsh penalties for the charges brought. Judges lend their hands to the racial distillation process, using whatever discretion they are allowed to favor whites in sentencing and conditions of confinement.
Inexorably, and with near-identical effects at every stage of the process and across regions, the U.S. criminal justice system reveals its essential racist character. We can prove that the system is racist through the uniformity of results, and that it is intended to be racist by the relentless duplication of the process over time and geography. Ernest M. Drucker, in his contribution to the National Urban League’s 2003 State of Black America compilation, used New York as an example of what is, in fact, the national pattern:
In New York State, despite the lack of any evidence of significantly higher rates of illicit drug use for blacks and Hispanics, drug-related incarcerations of young black and Hispanic males is 40 and 30 times the rate, respectively, of young white males. Since the so-called Rockefeller drug laws took effect in 1973, the rate of drug incarcerations in New York increased from 8 percent of the prison population to more than 30 percent. Ninety percent of that group are male; 78 percent are New York City residents; 94 percent are black and Hispanic (although blacks and Hispanics are just 12 percent of the total state population); and 70 percent of them come from just six New York City neighborhoods.
If these results were the product of mistaken theories, the society that demanded such an approach to drug use would have taken corrective action. After 31 years, white society clearly approves of the results: massively disproportionate Black and Latino incarceration.Full article at:
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