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Originally posted by sgtclub
"We've got more African Americans in jail than we do in college. That's unacceptable," he [Kerry] added.
In fact, it seems that there are more than twice as many African Americans in college than in jail.
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The statement that I heard many times in the last decade (not from Kerry) is that there are more African Americans in the criminal justice system than in college. The criminal justice system includes more than jails and prisons; it includes people on parole, on probation, or under other form of supervised release.
I don't know if the statement is true today, but the stats I saw years ago when I first heard this statement supported it.
Before the attack-machine gets churning on me -- I'm not defending Kerry, who obviously said something wrong. I'm just pointing out what the original statement -- the parent of his bastard comment, if you will -- was.
