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<blockquote data-quote="The Encourager" data-source="post: 31660756" data-attributes="member: 9964"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."--Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. </span></strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Pray for our Nation. Pray that racism and police brutality will stop. Pray that the system that set up systemic racism burns to the grown. </span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><u>I did some research concerning Black Men in prison. I read several articles. There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here’s the proof. </u></span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>1. Black Americans are more likely to have their cars searched than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>2. Black Americans are more likely to be arrested for drugs than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>3. Black Americans are more likely to be jailed while awaiting trial than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>4.</strong> <strong>Black Americans are more likely to be offered a plea deal that includes prison time</strong> <strong>than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>5. Black Americans may be excluded from juries because of their race than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>6. Black Americans are more likely to serve longer sentences than white Americans for the same offense than White Americans.</strong> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>7. Black Americans are more likely to be disenfranchised because of a felony conviction</strong> <strong>than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>8. Black Americans are more likely to have their probation revoked than White Americans.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><strong>Pray for our Nation. Pray that racism and police brutality will stop. Pray that the system that set up systemic racism burns to the grown. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"></span></span></p><p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/racial-disparities-in-the-criminal-justice-system-eight-charts-illustrating-how-its-stacked-against-blacks.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/racial-disparities-in-the-criminal-justice-system-eight-charts-illustrating-how-its-stacked-against-blacks.html</span></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Encourager, post: 31660756, member: 9964"] [SIZE=6][B][FONT=book antiqua]"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."--Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [/FONT][/B][FONT=book antiqua][B][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=6][FONT=book antiqua] Pray for our Nation. Pray that racism and police brutality will stop. Pray that the system that set up systemic racism burns to the grown. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=book antiqua][SIZE=5][U]I did some research concerning Black Men in prison. I read several articles. There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here’s the proof. [/U][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [SIZE=5][FONT=book antiqua] [B]1. Black Americans are more likely to have their cars searched than White Americans. 2. Black Americans are more likely to be arrested for drugs than White Americans. 3. Black Americans are more likely to be jailed while awaiting trial than White Americans. 4.[/B] [B]Black Americans are more likely to be offered a plea deal that includes prison time[/B] [B]than White Americans. 5. Black Americans may be excluded from juries because of their race than White Americans. 6. Black Americans are more likely to serve longer sentences than white Americans for the same offense than White Americans.[/B] [B]7. Black Americans are more likely to be disenfranchised because of a felony conviction[/B] [B]than White Americans.[/B] [B]8. Black Americans are more likely to have their probation revoked than White Americans. Pray for our Nation. Pray that racism and police brutality will stop. Pray that the system that set up systemic racism burns to the grown. [/B] [/FONT][/SIZE] [URL='https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/racial-disparities-in-the-criminal-justice-system-eight-charts-illustrating-how-its-stacked-against-blacks.html'][SIZE=5][FONT=book antiqua]https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/racial-disparities-in-the-criminal-justice-system-eight-charts-illustrating-how-its-stacked-against-blacks.html[/FONT][/SIZE][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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