"If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton
One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish.
About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach, trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family.
"You aren't going to catch many fish that way," said the businessman to the fisherman, "you should be working rather than lying on the beach!"
The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, "And what will my reward be?"
"Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!" was the businessman's answer.
"And then what will my reward be?" asked the fisherman, still smiling.
The businessman replied, "You will make money and you'll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!"
"And then what will my reward be?" asked the fisherman again.
The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman's questions. "You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!" he said.
"And then what will my reward be?" repeated the fisherman.
The businessman was getting angry. "Don't you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!"
Once again the fisherman asked, "And then what will my reward be?"
The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, "Don't you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won't have a care in the world!"
The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, "And what do you think I'm doing right now?"
That's why.
INCARCERATION RATES
We took the following two incarceration rate tables for each state directly from the Sentencing Project's web site.
Table 13: Prison & Jail Incarceration Rates, 2005
Rate of Incarceration per 100,000 Population
State
White
Black
Hispanic
Alabama
542
1916
-
Alaska
500
2163
380
Arizona
590
3294
1075
Arkansas
478
1846
288
California
460
2992
782
Colorado
525
3491
1042
Connecticut
211
2532
1401
Delaware
396
2517
683
District of Columbia
56
1065
267
Florida
588
2615
382
Georgia
623
2068
576
Hawaii
453
851
185
Idaho
675
2869
1654
Illinois
223
2020
415
Indiana
463
2526
579
Iowa
309
4200
764
Kansas
443
3096
-
Kentucky
561
2793
757
Louisiana
523
2452
244
Maine
262
1992
-
Maryland
288
1579
-
Massachusetts
201
1635
1229
Michigan
412
2262
397
Minnesota
212
1937
-
Mississippi
503
1742
611
Missouri
487
2556
587
Montana
433
3569
846
NATIONAL
412
2290
742
Nebraska
290
2418
739
Nevada
627
2916
621
New Hampshire
289
2666
1063
New Jersey
190
2352
630
New York
174
1627
778
North Carolina
320
1727
-
North Dakota
267
2683
848
Ohio
344
2196
613
Oklahoma
740
3252
832
Oregon
502
2930
573
Pennsylvania
305
2792
1714
Rhode Island
191
1838
631
South Carolina
415
1856
476
South Dakota
470
4710
-
Tennessee
487
2006
561
Texas
667
3162
830
Utah
392
3588
838
Vermont
304
3797
-
Virginia
396
2331
487
Washington
393
2522
527
West Virginia
392
2188
211
Wisconsin
415
4416
-
Source: The Sentencing Project Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration by Race and Ethnicity by Marc Mauer and Ryan S. King, July 2007
*Incarceration rates based on data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005. New Mexico and Wyoming have been excluded due
Ouch! Hurts dont it?
The only reason any of those 3rd world countries are progressing is because the good old USA educates them for free...gives them the technology for free.....sets up factories and trains them for free...white America did all this for them......and the USA is reviled and hated by most of these countries....and even are own liberal citizens......only a fool cannot see where this country is headed with the exploding minority population...that includes wetbacks and all the non european cultures that are taking control of this country by their agression and shear numbers......did white european Americans build a monument to the japs at pearl harbor? well this multi cultural America will probably build a mosque on ground zero......all hail multi cultural america.
There yall go. I did the work for you, read it and weep.
We shoot each other over tennis shoes or scraps of paper.
They don't all do that either by the way...and nor do we.
Plenty live very peaceful lives.
Plenty are well educated, articulate, and successful by western standards.
But those also weren't the standards for most of the history of the darker skinned world.
They sat on beaches and enjoyed life, they obtained a strong spouse, had strong kids, and taught them the skills they thought a parent should.
Not all cultures were compelled to write about the nature of freewill, or expound on the rights of man, nor did they have a desire to build trains, guns, or flying machines.
While Europe and the Middle east slaughtered each other during the crusades, most of the rest of the planet fished, planted crops, wove blankets, danced, hunted, and told stories around a fire.
Which group spent their time better is very arguable.
The hate crimes bill is racist - against Eruopean-Americans. And yeah, I'm European-American if anybody else in this country is "whatever"-American.
Thing is, I am an American and expect to be treated the same as anybody else in the "eyes of the law".
The hate crime "idea" is a racist concept - period.
If you want to identify the most racist racial group in this country, there is absolutely no question which one it is. It is the same group that is most "entitelment" oriented. The same group that is plagued by disfunctional family structures. The same group that continually votes for the polititians that are most responsible for working to keep them "down".
Members of this racial group that "get it" are doing very well politically - they are finding "surprise" that the tea party people, conservatives, etc. are the least racialy-orientated group in this country.
The data, the facts, speak for themselves.
~Nemo me impune lacessit~
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