Thursday, August 04, 2005
4 August 2005
More Evidence
also of interest:
In 1983 (3 years before the 1986 drug law passed) 8.8 percent of the 660,800 people in federal, state, and local prisions and jails were incarcerated for drug-related offenses. By 1993, the total prison population was 1.4 million, and 25.1 percent were incarcerated for drug offenses. On the surface, it looks like the 1986 drug law had done a bang-up job of getting drug offenders off the street. However, it was not nearly as simple as that. "Between 1986 and 1991, the incarceration rate for white males convicted on drug crimes increased by 106 percent." For black males convicted of the same types of drug crimes, the incarceration rate increased by 429 percent, and black women... 828 percent!
Go figure.
In 1988, congress passed a law expanding the crimes for which the federal death penalty could be imposed. These crimes included things like drug-related murders, and murders committed by drug gangs. Convictions under said act between '89 and '96 were 70 percent white and 24 percent black. (bear in mind that blacks make up around 11 to 16 percent of the population) However, 90 percent of the times in such cases that the death penalty was saught it was wagains tnon-whites; 78 percent black and ther rest Hispanic. Regardless of the offense, blacks are far more likely to find themselves on death row than whites. Of all the inmates on Death Row, both federal and state, 50 percent are black. Since 1976, 40% of America's murder victims have been black, but a striking 90% of death sentences imposed in homicide cases have been for those that involved white victims. Not only are blacks unfairly prosecuted and sentenced, but they are also not accorded the same protections and recourse under the law. The government is sticking it to black criminals and victims while their white counterparts get off easier and get stronger retribution.
also of interest:
In 1983 (3 years before the 1986 drug law passed) 8.8 percent of the 660,800 people in federal, state, and local prisions and jails were incarcerated for drug-related offenses. By 1993, the total prison population was 1.4 million, and 25.1 percent were incarcerated for drug offenses. On the surface, it looks like the 1986 drug law had done a bang-up job of getting drug offenders off the street. However, it was not nearly as simple as that. "Between 1986 and 1991, the incarceration rate for white males convicted on drug crimes increased by 106 percent." For black males convicted of the same types of drug crimes, the incarceration rate increased by 429 percent, and black women... 828 percent!
Go figure.
In 1988, congress passed a law expanding the crimes for which the federal death penalty could be imposed. These crimes included things like drug-related murders, and murders committed by drug gangs. Convictions under said act between '89 and '96 were 70 percent white and 24 percent black. (bear in mind that blacks make up around 11 to 16 percent of the population) However, 90 percent of the times in such cases that the death penalty was saught it was wagains tnon-whites; 78 percent black and ther rest Hispanic. Regardless of the offense, blacks are far more likely to find themselves on death row than whites. Of all the inmates on Death Row, both federal and state, 50 percent are black. Since 1976, 40% of America's murder victims have been black, but a striking 90% of death sentences imposed in homicide cases have been for those that involved white victims. Not only are blacks unfairly prosecuted and sentenced, but they are also not accorded the same protections and recourse under the law. The government is sticking it to black criminals and victims while their white counterparts get off easier and get stronger retribution.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
2 August 2005
A very interesting article:
Football and Rappers
If you scroll down far enough you'll get to WFU, NCSU and UNC.
Personally, I might compare us to Talib Kweli or Mos Def, smarter than the rest, but still skills to get the job done and actually say something.
On another note, did you know that there was a Green Beret unit in Memphis on the Day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed by a bullet from a 30.06 sniper rifle, and that court ordered tests did not prove that the bullet was fired from James Earl Ray's weapon... Also interesting is the fact that the US Armyhad a sizable dossier on Dr. King, and even recruited the Ku Klux Klan (the 20th Special Froces Group) as a subsidary intelligence network to help keep tabs on King and other Black leaders. Men such as, but not limited to Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois were all the object of harassment by the FBI.
Look into the FBI's COINTELPRO program, started in 1956. A memo from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover described the program in August 1967 as to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" black organizations the FBI did not care for. the Bureau was to "pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercised their potential for violence" as orderd by Hoover. At least six leaters of the Black Panthers were "neutralized" or killed at the hands of the FBI, including two who were shot while sleeping in their beds by Chicago police.
In other news, President Nixon's war on drugs was in reality a war on blacks. Nixon's top aide, H.R. Haldeman wrote in his diary after a Nixon briefing in 1969 that "Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
In 1991, the Justice Department confiscated over $500 millon worth of property related to drug "busts" under the new "substitute property" clause, while only 20% of those seizures were from people who were eventualy charged with a crime. This new clause allowed siezures to be made against people neither charged nor convicted of a crime, but merely suspected fo drug related crimes.
(from chapter 3, WHITEOUT. Cockburn and St. Clair)
Why does crack cocaine carry punishmet 100 times more severe than powder cocaine...?
A very interesting article:
If you scroll down far enough you'll get to WFU, NCSU and UNC.
Personally, I might compare us to Talib Kweli or Mos Def, smarter than the rest, but still skills to get the job done and actually say something.
On another note, did you know that there was a Green Beret unit in Memphis on the Day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed by a bullet from a 30.06 sniper rifle, and that court ordered tests did not prove that the bullet was fired from James Earl Ray's weapon... Also interesting is the fact that the US Armyhad a sizable dossier on Dr. King, and even recruited the Ku Klux Klan (the 20th Special Froces Group) as a subsidary intelligence network to help keep tabs on King and other Black leaders. Men such as, but not limited to Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois were all the object of harassment by the FBI.
Look into the FBI's COINTELPRO program, started in 1956. A memo from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover described the program in August 1967 as to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" black organizations the FBI did not care for. the Bureau was to "pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercised their potential for violence" as orderd by Hoover. At least six leaters of the Black Panthers were "neutralized" or killed at the hands of the FBI, including two who were shot while sleeping in their beds by Chicago police.
In other news, President Nixon's war on drugs was in reality a war on blacks. Nixon's top aide, H.R. Haldeman wrote in his diary after a Nixon briefing in 1969 that "Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
In 1991, the Justice Department confiscated over $500 millon worth of property related to drug "busts" under the new "substitute property" clause, while only 20% of those seizures were from people who were eventualy charged with a crime. This new clause allowed siezures to be made against people neither charged nor convicted of a crime, but merely suspected fo drug related crimes.
(from chapter 3, WHITEOUT. Cockburn and St. Clair)
Why does crack cocaine carry punishmet 100 times more severe than powder cocaine...?
