Harry Boy

Pretty Boy John Edwards says that soon all young black males will be dead or in prison, holy jumping Jesus Christ almighty, what will Al & Jess have to say about this one.

Quote Haircut Eddie says:
"pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.c...hmZTlkODhkMWI=

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QuiGon

What a reprehensible statement. Do you think Al and Jesse will be protesting Edwards anytime soon..?

Harry Boy

Imagine if Romney or Thompson had said this.

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Real World

I saw the clip. I'm curious to see how this plays out. I know how it would had a repub said it. So this should be interesting. I understood what he was trying to say, and I want to see if he is going to get rolled like certain others would.

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DarrylS

He is not all that far from the truth, morbidity rates for young black men(18-24) are anywhere from 4 to 6 times greater than those in comparable groups.

Have read where up to 33% of young black males are on probation or incarcerated, although I cannot find it now.. here is something interesting..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12154123/

This vexing problem, caused by a variety of social ills, is equally vexing when scholars consider what causes it.

Among the studies' findings:

Rates of imprisonment for young black men escalated throughout the 1990s and continued climbing well into the current decade. About 16 percent of black men in their twenties who were not college students were either in jail or in prison.
African Americans are seven times more likely to go to prison or jail than whites.
Almost 60 percent of black male high school dropouts in their early thirties have spent time in prison.
The percentage of young jobless black men continues to increase, part of a trend that generally hasn't abated in decades. In 2000, about 65 percent of black male high-school dropouts had no jobs, either because they couldn't find work or because they were in jail. By 2004, the studies found that number had grown to 72 percent. The numbers for young black men were higher than for whites and Hispanics similarly affected.

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DarrylS

DOJ stats from '05 give more insight, they have 12% of black males between 20-39 currently incarcerated, that is about 1 in 8.... without regard for the specific numbers, the rates are 5 to 7 times greater than for white folks.. not sure what all this means, but interesting issue. The DOJ keeps very good stats, as that is a big function of Gov't... you don't need a study to know if you walk into a probation office or a prison to know that the majority are black and young..


http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf
An estimated 12% of black males in
their late twenties were in prison or
jail in 2005
When total incarceration rates are
estimated separately by age group,
black males in their twenties and
thirties are found to have very high
rates relative to other groups
(table 13). Among the nearly 2.2
million offenders incarcerated on June
30, 2005, an estimated 548,300 were
black males between the ages of 20
and 39. Of black non-Hispanic males
age 25 to 29, 11.9% were in prison or
jail, compared to 3.9% of Hispanic
males and about 1.7% of white males
in the same age group. In general, the
incarceration rates for black males of
all ages were 5 to 7 times greater than
those for white males in the same age
groups.
Female incarceration rates, though
significantly lower than male rates at
every age, reveal similar racial and
ethnic disparities. The incarceration
rate for Black non-Hispanic females
was 347 per 100,000 almost 22 times
higher than the rate for Hispanic
females (144 per 100,000) and 4 times
higher than the rate for white females
(88 per 100,000). These differences
among white, black, and Hispanic
females were consistent across all age

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Patters

GJAJ15, I doubt if the righties will respond to your posts. They put Edwards words in an intelligent context. The righties want to believe what was said was racist in their pursuit of the mythical double standard. The irony is with posts like theirs the righties keep on proving why the black community needs people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.

BelichickFan

It's a shame but the incarceration rate is because they commit more crimes - usually because they're put in tough situations. Sure it's tough to climb out of poverty but it's extra tough when there's often broken homes to deal with and no parent home because the one parent is out working. It's too bad but it is what it is and it's not society's fault.

Harry Boy

Why is this tolerated, why do we not have a "War On Gangs" in America why aren't Gangs attacked by the Media and socialist activists they same way Don Imus was attacked, why is the situation described in the following link allowed to get this far, is it because the Police and the Politicians are afraid, will the Law Suits start if they take action, will they be accused of racism, will they lose their jobs, will they Go To Jail instead of the Rat Bastard.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...icleid=1034880

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Patters

Yeah, right, gang members have it a lot better than Don Imus. The police are all over Don. Bet he'll end up in jail. Poor guy.

And as far as your Herald article, I'm all for hiring more police, more social service workers, more therapists, and other to battle the problem of gangs. The right's solution is, Let's wait until there's a victim, and then arrest someone. The left's solution is, Let's try to prevent victims in the first place.

What evidence do you have that police aren't doing their jobs because of fear of being accused of racism? Do you think the police are cowards?