I’m on vacation, so I didn’t really post this and have no time for snarky comment… but I just couldn’t leave this one in the Drafts pile until I return. By the way, Tax Cannabis 2010 now has its official number and is now known as Prop 19. See you back here for real on July 12. — “R”R
(LA Weekly) A look at booking stats for California’s 25 most-populated areas finds that in Los Angeles County African-Americans have a marijuana-possession arrest rate that’s 332 percent higher than that for whites.
The report, “Targeting Blacks For Marijuana,” was released this week and found that across those 25 largest counties the pot-holding arrest rate for blacks was often at least double that of whites despite evidence that indicates African-Americans use cannabis at a lower rate. In L.A. County the percentage was more than quadruple.
Overall the report found that African-Americans made up one in five pot arrests in a state where they comprise seven percent of the population.
In L.A. County blacks made up three in ten pot arrests but comprise only 1 out of 10 people here.
San Diego County has L.A. beat on that front, however, with a African-American pot-arrest rate that’s 365 percent higher than that for whites. In S.D., blacks made up one in five weed arrests but only comprised 5.6 percent of the population. In O.C., the pot-arrest rate for African-Americans was 221 percent more than that for whites.
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If Michelle Alexander could get Michelle Obama to care about racism incarceration-she could call Michele Leonhart to stop selective prosecutions and racial profiling–also concentrate on CIA-Mafia ops in Heroin-cocaine-meth. Legal cannabis is mandatory Michelle World !
Wow! Even though I’m aware of this new Jim Crow the author was able to explain exactly how it came to be. She’s an amazing lady and hope this book will be helpful in exposing the “lie”. It’s sickening how we have been manipulated for so long. I’ll be buying her book.
For interview of Michelle Alexander author of New Jim Crow, see: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/11/legal_scholar_michelle_alexander_on_the
Read the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander for an in-depth and highly researched work on this disparity in drug arrests. Historically, black Americans are arrested at a significantly higher rate than whites despite the fact that whites are more likely to use and sell drugs. Ms. Alexander states the case that the numerical variance has racial motivations and is discriminatory in nature.. She puts forth the case that this policy is for the purpose of social control of Blacks and Latinos, and creates a society with a caste system, where the lower caste of felons cannot find work, housing, and are further discriminated against. The author advocates the legalization of marijuana. She also discussed the reticence the African-American community has in addressing this new parallel to Jim Crow laws written during the time of the efforts to bring on the 18th amendment evoking alcohol prohibition.