A System of Smokescreens & Stats

Good Afternoon from Upper Darby!

I'm quickly posting this, feelin a little bit better. Did some typing for the book today, but I came across this article and some interesting stats posted by a White Supremacist under the log-on name of billsmith1948. Billsmith1948 posts some Fun Facts that are MEANT TO show just how violently criminal we are as Black Americans and how having us as major segments of a city's population causes that city's crime rate to spike and unemployment to go up. He also has a host of other Fun Facts regarding our frequency and volume towards criminal behavior, which caught my attention only because it highlights how White swill claim STATS MEAN EVERYTHING and NUMBERS NEVER LIE.

Until you see how the White American Court System and its multitude of MONEY MAKING MARGINALIZATION SCHEMES, literally make money off of bigoted behavior towards Black Americans. Like I've said before I have PLENTY to post, PLENTY. On ALL KINDS OF TOPICS, but when I look at how PROFITABLE White Americans have made it for Blacks to be CRIMINALS it is VERY DISTURBING. Because no right-minded people would literally spend this kind of energy trying to create ways to MAKE MONEY OFF OF SOMEONE ELSE'S PAIN AND SUFFERING. I've including an article where a Black High School student got a full-scholarship to Illinois Institute of Technology (ITT) but opted TO NOT GO THERE OUT OF FEAR HE COULD BE KILLED BY RANDOM VIOLENCE.

Keep in mind that the Nazi-American White Criminal Court System has been caught REPEATEDLY RIGGING ITS OWN NUMBERS AND INTENTIONALLY GIVING BLACK AMERICANS JAIL SENTENCES EVEN WHEN THEY SHOULDN'T AND ALWAYS FOR FAR WORSE AMOUNTS OF TIME THAN SHOULD BE HANDED DOWN FOR THE CRIME COMMITTED. This of course is information that you can easily find by google searches and only a few minutes of your own time, but I still left Billsmith1948's fucked up SLANTED STATS. Also bear in mind that in Nazi-America IT IS STILL LEGAL TO TURN A BLACK PERSON INTO A SLAVE IF YOU CAN CONVICT THEM OF A CRIME! Something the Shitty Black American Leaders here STILL HAVEN'T ADDRESSED. The 13th Amendment has a clause in it that states that IF YOU BECOME DULY CONVICTED OF A CRIME THEN!? You can be made A SLAVE. That shit is STILL ON THE BOOKS PEOPLE!

Yep, slavery is still legal: Column

Jim Liske8:01 p.m. EDT August 14, 2014

The 13th Amendment ban allows one exception, and we see it in our justice system.

On Sept. 15, 1963, the bomb that killed four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., showed America just how far we had to go to fulfill the promise of justice and equality for all, even a century after the 13th Amendment ended slavery. Half a century after the bombing, the struggle is not over, in part because language in that same amendment still undermines the equal humanity of more than 7 million Americans who have been convicted of a crime.

Ratified at the end of the Civil War, the amendment abolished slavery, with one critical exception: Slavery and involuntary servitude actually remain lawful "as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." In other words, according to this so-called punishment clause, if you get pulled over with the wrong controlled substance in your trunk, there's nothing in the 13th Amendment to ensure you can't be considered a slave of the state.

The punishment clause was taken directly from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and reflected the belief of the time that hard work was essential to prisoners' moral rehabilitation. But the language was also ambiguous enough to be grossly abused. Soon, the clause was being used to reinstitute slavery under another guise.

Excuse for new abuse

In 1866, just a year after the Civil War, a black man convicted of theft in Maryland was advertised for sale in the newspaper as punishment. "Vagrancy" — code for being young, black and unemployed — could yield similar results.

Decades later, famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass described how the widespread "convict lease system" exploited the punishment clause to subvert the noble intent of the 13th Amendment: "(States) claim to be too poor to maintain state convicts within prison walls. Hence the convicts are leased out to work for railway contractors, mining companies and those who farm large plantations. These companies assume charge of the convicts, work them as cheap labor and pay the states a handsome revenue for their labor. Nine-tenths of these convicts are negroes." Douglass went on to note that so many blacks were behind bars because law enforcement tended to target them.

Importantly, Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century ensured that no one today is sentenced to actual slavery as a form of criminal punishment, but shades of Douglass' critique still ring true. Black men are incarcerated at six times the rate of white men, thanks in part to uneven enforcement and sentencing in the "war on drugs." While drug use rates vary little among racial groups, people of color stand a much better chance of being searched, prosecuted and convicted than whites, and government studies have found that they serve longer sentences.

Racially imbalanced enforcement also means that minorities are more likely to suffer consequences that outlast their sentences: difficulty finding jobs and housing, lost access to government benefits and, in some places, disenfranchisement.

Next year, the United States will mark the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery when, at the cost of 600,000 lives, we concluded that all people, regardless of color, are made in the image of their creator and that slavery is an abomination. Not just because it compels labor, but because it denies the full dignity and value of the enslaved person. As long as it remains in the Constitution, the punishment clause is an offensive vestige of the legacy of dehumanizing and often racist practices in the American criminal justice system.

No less human

Breaking the law does not make the 7 million Americans behind bars, on probation or on parole any less human. While it's true that offenders properly forfeit certain rights and privileges, including their freedom, they also retain many others carefully laid out in the Bill of Rights and elsewhere. By definition, slavery goes far beyond the removal of freedom; it denies the humanity of the enslaved. Why should language that calls into question the basic equality and dignity of millions of Americans persist in our country's Constitution?

Meaningful work can be part of a restorative corrections policy. Many prisoners need to learn skills that will make them employable after release. Prison jobs also help people maintain a sense of purpose and structure during long sentences. Society as a whole also benefits when prisoners' labor allows them to pay restitution. But slavery — labor that dehumanizes one person for the profit of another — has no place in prisons or in the Constitution.

We need a national dialog about amending the 13th Amendment. Current implications of the punishment clause should be the talk of every college course in criminal justice. It should be debated in every state legislature and in the halls of Congress. Here, in the home of nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners, every American should know about the scandalous persistence of slavery in our nation's most fundamental document.

Now for the college article;
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WOW: Student Gives Up $80K Full Ride Because Of Chicago Violence

Lander Braggs was a model student: making good grades, involved in school and staying out of trouble. So when it came time to pick a college, many schools came knocking, including one prestigious Chicago school that came with an $80,000 free ride. But the 17-year old African American high school senior says he gave up that scholarship because of the city’s violence.

Braggs, who wants to study engineering, says he turned down a full tuition $80,000 scholarship to attend the prestigious Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) because he fears becoming a victim of Chicago’s inner city violence. He says that at first he was very excited about being offered the scholarship, but then he changed his mind.

He comments, “I’m just thinking, like, I don’t want that for me. I want to be able to just go through life and not have to worry about what’s going to happen to me tomorrow. With all that’s going on in Chicago, with all the violence and everything, I just wanted a different environment.”

He also told reporters that he knows that crime can happen anywhere and he realizes that some people won’t agree with his decision, but he is doing what’s comfortable for him. He also says he hopes that this brings much-needed attention to the impact that violence has on young African-American men like himself.

Braggs’ mother Nicole Howell says she fully supports his decision. She says says she can’t…

…put a price on her peace of mind. She comments, “If I have to pay something that’s fine. I don’t want to have to look at my watch and say its 3:30, 4:30 I haven’t heard from him and worry everyday if he’s safe.”

Both Braggs and his mother say they’re sharing their story because it shows another way that violence impacts black teens who are trying to do the right thing. He has accepted a scholarship to Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. That scholarship only covers tuition, and his mother says she is confident she can figure out a way, using loans and other means, to pay for room and board.

She’s says she’s just glad he’ll be safe.

billsmith1948 on May 9, 2015 at 11:48 am said:

Here are the 15 most dangerous cities (with populations over 200,000):
Rank City, . . . . . . . .Percentage Black
313 Dayton, OH . . . . . .43.9%
314 Richmond, VA . . . . .58.0%
315 Kansas City, MO . .. 32.0%
316 Washington, DC . . . .61.5%
317 New Orleans, LA . . . 68.1%
318 Memphis, TN . . . . . 62.1%
319 Compton, CA . . . . . 41.8%
320 West Palm Beach, FL .33.3%
321 Tampa, FL . . . . . . 26.9%
322 Camden, NJ . . . . . .55.5%
323 Gary, IN .. . . . . . 85.5%
324 Baltimore, MD . . . . 65.3%
325 St. Louis, MO . . . . 52.2%
326 Atlanta, GA . . . . . 62.2%
327 Detroit, MI . . . . . 83.5%

Here are the 15 safest cities in the US (with a population over 200,000):
Rank City, . . . . . . . Percentage Black
1 Amherst, NY . . . . . . 3.9%
2 Newton, MA . . . . . . .2.0%
3 Mission Viejo, CA . . . 1.2%
4 Cary, NC . .. . . . . .6.3%
5 Brick Twnshp, NJ . . . .1.0%
6 Simi Valley, CA . . . . 1.3%
7 Sunnyvale, CA . . . . . 2.3%
8 Colonie, NY . . . . . . 4.0%
9 Sterling Heights, MI . .1.3%
10 Clarkstown, NY . . . .8.0%
11 Orem, UT . . . . . . . 0.3%
12 Greece, NY . . . . . . 2.9%
13 Thousand Oaks, CA .. .1.1%
14 Canton Twnshp, MI . ..4.6%
15 Livermore, CA .. . . .1.6%

BLACKS .. are 7 times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, & 8 times more likely to commit robbery.
When Blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-Blacks to use a gun, & more than twice as likely to use a knife.
HISPANICS .. commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent
crimes at about one quarter the White rate.
The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is
Black & Hispanic.
Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving Blacks & Whites, Blacks commit 85 percent and Whites commit 15 percent.
BLACKS .. commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their
victims are white, 43 percent are Black, & 10 percent are Hispanic. When Whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are Black.
Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a White than vice versa, & 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice
versa.
Only 10 percent of youth gang members are white.
HISPANICS .. are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, & Asians are nine times more likely.
Between 1980 and 2003 the US incarceration rate more than tripled, from 139 to 482 per 100,000, & the number of prisoners increased from 320,000 to 1.39 million.
Blacks are seven times more likely to be in prison than Whites. Hispanics are three times more likely.

Rev. Amos Brown, a San Francisco NAACP board member, told the LA Times that African Americans make up only about 5 percent of the city’s population but 60 percent to 70 percent of those in San Francisco’s juvenile hall. The Examiner reported that 47 percent of people arrested between 2009 and 2014 were black.