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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
Message-ID: <1314@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 22:41:19 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1314
Posted: Mon Mar 17 22:41:19 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Mar-86 18:51:13 EST
References: <1720@bbncca.ARPA> <1122@mit-eddie.UUCP> <542@ihdev.UUCP> <71@gilbbs.UUCP> <609@kontron.UUCP>
Reply-To: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <609@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>I don't find it surprising that blacks have historically received rougher
>sentences in this country because of racism.  I don't doubt that it still
>happens, although to a lesser extent.  However, the one thing which is
>indisputably clear is that blacks commit a disproportionate number of the
>crimes in this country (mostly against other blacks).  We can argue about
>the reasons for this all day long -- but suggesting that the high percentage
>of blacks in jails and prisons is racism, not a reflection of crime incidence
>is just plain absurd.


The real prison problem in this country is that most Blacks are 
born into prison.  A prison called the Ghetto.

-- 
larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)

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