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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1189291" data-attributes="member: 40736">Facts? I gave you easily verified facts. Many posters on this board choose to ignore facts because they don&#039;t square nicely with their beliefs.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">About 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans report using an illicit drug</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet&nbsp; African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the&nbsp; rate of Whites</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug&nbsp; users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in&nbsp; state prison for a drug offense.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug&nbsp; offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months).&nbsp; (Sentencing Project)</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all&nbsp; prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up&nbsp; approximately one quarter of the US population</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">According to Unlocking America, if African American and Hispanics&nbsp; were incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today&#039;s prison and jail&nbsp; populations would decline by approximately 50%</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current&nbsp; trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend&nbsp; time in prison during his lifetime</li>
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[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1189291, member: 40736"] Facts? I gave you easily verified facts. Many posters on this board choose to ignore facts because they don't square nicely with their beliefs. [LIST] [*]About 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans report using an illicit drug [*]5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites [*]African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense. [*]African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months). (Sentencing Project) [/LIST] [LIST] [*]African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population [*]African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites [*]Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population [*]According to Unlocking America, if African American and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today's prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50% [*]One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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