Duke of Marmalade
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Oh dear. I withdraw all earlier comments. This subject is not my forté. I have enough on my hands grappling with tecate on divisibility of fiat/bitcoin.
Oh dear. I withdraw all earlier comments. This subject is not my forté. I have enough on my hands grappling with tecate on divisibility of fiat/bitcoin.Really??? Do you how less likely you are to be jailed if you are white illicit drug user rather than a black illicit drug user despite research showing drug use is the same in both populations? Do you know what the chances of a white teenager first offender entering the US justice system compared to a Black teenager first offender. A black man and a white man walking down the same street. Which one do think is more likely to be stopped by police? Sentencing shows that prosecutors are twice as likely to charge a black person for a crime with a minimum mandatory sentence than a white person in the same situation with regard to habitual crime. For all the reasons above, a black man is more than likely to have a criminal record than a white person so it is harder to secure employment which then has consequences not just for the person but whole families.
Are we could just say that black people are more to commit crime...
That's a huge issue. It creates a sort of pre-traumatic stress, an assumption of hostility with both parties.A black man and a white man walking down the same street. Which one do think is more likely to be stopped by police?
Oh dear. I withdraw all earlier comments. This subject is not my forté. I have enough on my hands grappling with tecate on divisibility of fiat/bitcoin.
it is striking to hear grown men and women say that they have, all of their lives, been frightened of the police.
Oh dear. I withdraw all earlier comments. This subject is not my forté. I have enough on my hands grappling with tecate on divisibility of fiat/bitcoin.
For balance is it also worth noting that Erlichman was bitter after being sent to prison over the Watergate affair and his family deny he ever said that about the war on drugs. That said the effect of the policy was to criminalise poor people.Erlichman (his domestic policy advisor) was quoted decades later as saying the "war on drugs" policy was a cloak to target black and left leaning parts of the population and criminalise them
although the USA accounts for about 5% of the worlds population, it accounts for about 25% of it's prisoners!*
They may have too few but we probably have too many.Not to mention "two-party" political system.
Population of how many? 330million, but only 'two' parties ever contesting for elections? I minded to think that it just one party with different factions.
Even Ireland has at least 6-7 parties elected to parliament. Throw in the North and there must be near a dozen parliamentary parties on this island alone. The European parliament has about 7 different groupings. But in the US, just one...sorry, two!
Yea, crazy stuff. And it dates from the 1950's, not the 1860's. It's a child of that Cold War fear, just like the religious Nationalism that has polarised the country so much. The good news is that an increasing number of young AMericans describe themselves as atheists, thank God.Spending on military would make most despot dictators look like weed-smoking pacifist hippies. TV audiences repeatedly called to give support to military personnel. Golf tournaments, MLB, NBA, NFL littered with military routines and flag-waving, national anthem displays, NK how are you?
Yep, nothing unites a family like a wolf at the door. It's all very Orwellian. I wouldn't include JFK on your list as he was as guilty as anyone of stoking the fires of fear. When you listen to his speeches about America's enemies it sounds surprisingly like Trump. Bobby was, in my opinion, a far greater and better man.Always in need of an enemy, communists, terrorists, Taliban, Bin Laden, Saddam, Russians etc...and if any of their own speak out and start ruffling feathers then snuff them out...JFK, MLK, Bobby Kennedy.
Yep, better schools would be cheaper.25% of world's incarcerated, including forced labour camps.
That's not really been a problem. Imagine if they were at the whim of the President.A private central bank, federal reserve, never been audited and can print money as it sees fit.
And they gave the world the first real democracy.They do some cool stuff though, Movies, TV shows, music, art, technology etc....
The Swiss would give them a good run for their money there, and a few others closer to home. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.and if you are minded to make as much money as you can, without any limitations on wealth accumulation, it is the place to go.
Very true although I'd hate to live there.It is a great country in so many ways, and a desperate one in many others.
A bucket of cold sick would make a better President than Trump. Biden is washed out but he's a better option that Hillary and any of them are a better option than Sanders.All is not well when the only two runners from President are Trump and Biden. Whoever wins, it is a sad, sad indictment on the mental well being of US citizens.
I was reading up on the 13th and why it was written as it was and it is clear that Lincoln was a ardent racist. In a speech in Charleston, Illinois, on September 18, 1858, Lincoln made his position clear. “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,” he began, going on to say that he opposed blacks having the right to vote, to serve on juries, to hold office and to intermarry with whites.Thanks for the tip on the 13th Purple, watched it there last night. That clip near the end where they played Trump during his previous election rallies over old shots of violence against black people was quite chilling.
The first American leader to truly see Black people as equal in every way Robert Kennedy who then convinced his brother of the merits of that view.
True, but he did speak against the bill to emancipate slaves in massachusetts in 1777 and was against allowing black soldiers to serve in the Revolutionary Army. therefore while he held a strong personal view that slavery was wrong that view did not inform his actions in public office.John Adams - 2nd President. Represented slaves in court bids for freedom, one of the few founding fathers to never own a slave.
True, but he did speak against the bill to emancipate slaves in massachusetts in 1777 and was against allowing black soldiers to serve in the Revolutionary Army. therefore while he held a strong personal view that slavery was wrong that view did not inform his actions in public office.
His wife was a vocal abolitionist and if they were around today she's probably be the higher profile politician. His son, John Quincy Adams, was a vocal abolitionist in his political life but did any of them truly see black people as equal?
All true.It was a question of timing. He spoke on both issues while looking to maintain unity during the independence push. I guess he saw the bigger, more immediate issue was to maintain the coalition against the UK. He argued that the legislation should be put on ice for the moment - he never argued that it was wrong.
Hard to know if someone views others as their equal - do I think my neighbour is my equal? But he certainly argued that slavery was morally wrong and argued that black people should have the same rights. Not quite the same I guess. But it was him who wrote the Declaration of Rights clauses that caused slavery to be abolished in Mass 3 years later
True, but the same thing could be asked of a black audience about white people.I was flicking through one night and Jimmy Fallon had the leader of the NACCP on (this was just after Fallon's apology for blackfacing) and another African American guy whose name escapes me. I didn't see all of the interview but one of them made an interesting point when he asked, "how many of you white people have a black friend?, I don't mean people you know from work or people you know from sport but a genuine black friend"?
Until American gets to that state, and I'd include Hispanic's in that scenario as well, it's hard to see things changing.
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