How long is this going to go on? How much is enough?

Might I suggest you take your own advice and go do something a bit more productive than posting shit on the internet.

It must be awesome to live in a world of black and white.

There address many layers to this. It isn't the don't break the law that is the issue and nobody is saying that someone who commits a felony should get a slap on the woodsy due to race, but that is what happens. Only it typically only happens to higher ses white criminals.

Robber a commits crime, is black, gets 15 years
Robber B commits same crime similar circumstances, is white with a good background and some money, gets 5 years and is out in 3 on good behavior.

How heavy is that chip on your shoulder? It seems almost debilitating.

Because I know the rules.

As I've said before, I don't think it is really about race but instead SES. I've known two former students that got caught breaking the law, that were able to buy their ways out of the situations. No record, no community service, just Dad's checkbook. One was a white boy and one was a black girl. Their poor counterparts, who got caught with them (separate incidents) now have records. They couldn't afford fancy lawyers and hefty fines.

You don't seem to understand, yes they've committed a crime but some people are treated differently in the justice system. 

You are absolutely correct. My point is that consequences aren't handed out equally, thus poor people spend more time in jail than wealthy.

While there's a certain truth in "Just don't do it", there is far more complexity to the relationship between crime, poverty, incarceration, and the cycle thereof.

Rarely is it as simple as "just" anything.

My dream is that communities start sponsoring their own citizens. A full ride, for so many years of service in the sponsored community. Start it in grade school. Give the kids and the community not only a direction, but a clearer way to support our younger generation. It would be much like the sports star thing. Instead a sports scholarships . The community would have law enforcement, legal, computer and medical schorships. Have a team coachs for each profession. For those kids who wanted but did not win the scholaship. They would already be prepared to go on to college to become that professional.

And maybe they can have a different kind of scholarship. Instead of service to the community. We give you a free ride, you start your career somewhere else and you give 2 budding students free rides.

Kind of like an apprenticeship for jobs of today.

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