Another Unarmed Black Teen Killed
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It's clear that more education tends to lead to better employment outcomes. Bachelor's degree holders have a lower unemployment rate than high school graduates, who have a lower unemployment rate than high school dropouts.
But educational attainment may not yield the same benefits for everyone. A new study suggests that young black men need two more levels of education to achieve the same employment levels as young white men. Black men age 18 to 34 with some college have roughly the same chance of being employed as white non-Hispanic men who didn't graduate from high school, according to a new analysis of Census data.
Yes, a black male professional (doctor, dentist, professor) has as good a chance of being employed as a white male with an associates degree. THE SYSTEM WORKS!
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/26/5845468/a-black-man-with-a-college-degree
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Crappy and thugr seem to think they have presented facts. I only saw (biased and self-serving) opinions.
When they start posting facts, maybe I'll discuss those facts with them.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Signy
I remember living in a slum when I was poor. I remember outrageously priced food that was spoiled in the package. Laundromats that ate your money but didn't work. Police that never showed up for a 911 call. Low rent and substandard living conditions. It sure seems everyone made money off that neighbothood except the people actually stuck living there.
Let's be accurate ok? While what you say is true it is also true that most who live in these neighborhoods do nothing to help themselves. They do not pay for the services provided within those communities so complaining about the poor conditions is mute. I lived in the same neighborhood that a new complex was built and within a year there was graffiti as high as could be reached on all the buildings and not a screen left on the first floor. All the scrubs were dead as well as the grass.
What that suggests to me is the people living there are the problem. I am sure that is not what that suggests to you. Fine, nothing changes.
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more useless opinions
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THUGR
When did YOU get off your knees to fight an unjust system? Never?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR
When did YOU get off your knees to fight an unjust system? Never?
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I always try to improve myself. Life is hard and I was dealt a hard blow. I did not have to worry about the cops. I had to look over my shoulder in my own home. I found out if you try there is plenty of help to be had. Just look at how hard the people from this community are defended on these threads. There is tons of money poured into helping them but far to many just what to take it and run. Not to also accept help in turning their lives around. I understand the odds are against them but what I am saying is what's accurate here. They must do it for themselves. They must turn their lives around.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think there's a problem with the way we deal with crime. We have both the highest crime rate AND the highest incarceration rate. Clearly, we're doing something wrong.
Assuming that you're correct on those stats, ( and I'm not asking for a cite: that's in line with my general impression, based on several things I've seen written somewhere or other. I can't cite a specific source myself. But I believe it's true.) we are, indeed doing something wrong. SO how do we fix it?
IN this political world where many candidates run on a platform of "I'm tough on crime," which is code for "lock 'em all up and throw away the key," ; but " my opponent is soft on law and order," which means "he voted AGAINST the DEATH PENALTY for stealing boxes of cigars ONCE"; with a side order of "Willie Horton-- my opponent would have let him out too, to pillage YOUR neighborhood." ; anybody who advocates any kind of legal system reform is asking to not be re-elected.
But to start off , here are some of my suggestions:
Decriminalize a lot of "victimless" crimes: drug use, simple prostitution ( and I know that's a complex issue... there's lots of abuse and sex slavery in the trade; that's not what I'm talking about. ), morality crimes. Reduce the sentences on the rest of them; none of this " War on Drugs' 25 to life for possession of a single joint" crap.
Reduce draconian "tough on crimes" sentences even on violent crimes. Nobody learns much from a too long sentence, it just warehouses them off the street, so there's no life change in the criminal, no chance to mature or change.
Those 2 right there would reduce the prison overcrowding problem, maybe allow prison folks to focus on those still in the system, either rehabilitate them or if they're really incorrigible, to validly lock 'em up forever.
( And maybe I'm wrong about those 2- maybe those tough on crimes laws are why crime has finally been decreasing nationwide. I haven't see stats on that, but if there are numbers that back that up, I'd love to see them. Maybe what we're doing isn't wrong, maybe it's exactly what needs to be done. If so, we need to embrace that, create prison colonies somewhere-- the Mojave desert? Alaska? the Army? the Moon? and let 'em sort it out their own way.)
Enforce the Death Penalty, for some crimes and in some cases where the factual guilt is not in question-- some criminals are sociopaths or incorrigibles, can't be redeemed, just plain have to be removed. And that includes the mentally damaged or previously abused-- it doesn't matter how they got to where they committed their crime, if they did it and can't be rehabilitated, it's a waste of time, space, and food to warehouse 'em, and a danger to society to ever let 'em out.
Get D.A.'s to stop overcharging on criminal trials, just to plea bargain it down to guilty on a lesser offense.
There are probably other ideas, but I've been working on this post for over an hour, I gotta end it here.
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NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Yes I agree with some of your suggestions. I would add that when time has been served they should be allowed to vote. At least until we notice they are putting people in place who are crime figures themselves. I don’t wish to be negative but it is a real possibility.
No to prison colonies and the death penalty. It actually cost more to execute someone than it does to lock them away for life. Rather than getting DA’s to lessen the charges against defendants I would suggest getting the defendants a better defense. Most defense lawyers are way over worked. Let’s also not forget DA’s like a high conviction rate so many who commit crimes simply walk or as you say plea bargain to get a lesser charge. There should be an independent group that looks for things like this and holds the DA accountable for stacking the deck against a defendant.
If a person from a bad neighborhood does well they leave most of this behind. Yes they are stilled followed in stores but as more join the ranks of the responsible things like that will occur less.
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I always try to improve myself. Life is hard and I was dealt a hard blow. I did not have to worry about the cops. I had to look over my shoulder in my own home. I found out if you try there is plenty of help to be had. Just look at how hard the people from this community are defended on these threads. There is tons of money poured into helping them but far to many just what to take it and run. Not to also accept help in turning their lives around. I understand the odds are against them but what I am saying is what's accurate here. They must do it for themselves. They must turn their lives around.
Are you white? B/c that's a big set of advantages right there, one white people just accept as a normal circumstance, oblivious to the fact that other people don't have the good fortune that they do. Are you male? (of course you are). That's another big advantage you have that went completely under your radar. Did you attend a suburban or religious school?
I find that many people who overcame a difficulty are extremely self-congratulatory and oblivious to the advantages they did have, and the obstacles other people face. It doesn't make them wiser. It just hardens their minset.
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1kiki
You will not get me to suggest that blacks and other minorities are not tread poorly in this country. That said once they decide to leave the world of being a victim things change dramatically for them. When asking Morgan Freeman if color played a big role in why blacks can't get ahead and if that's why their was so much income inequality, he responded not today. In the past yes but not today. He was asked that by another black man and he also said to him just look at you and me. It's not a problem for us.
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