With all the dialog concerning the multi billion dollar California prison system, and it’s deserved reputation as being bloated, broke, and ignominious in it’s failures in the eyes of the entire world. Wouldn’t it seem that this corrupt system of degradation and failure would be the first in line to be gutted and questioned as to it’s real worth to society? Instead education, health care, aid to the indigent and aged, and many other public commons institutions are being trimmed to the bone.I’m hearing from people who have family members incarcerated by the State of California that inmates without any money to buy additional food through legitimate means or through the underground pipeline found in most prisons, are living practically on bread and water.
Bob Herbert writing in the New York Times today, on the overzealous arrest of Prof Gates, racial profiling, and the ridiculous ratio of minority’s incarcerated compared to whites (especially for drug offenses). Herbert gives us these statistics about black men incarcerated, and if included, Latinos would really bump up these horrible numbers. And am I wrong or am I getting a feeling that the tragic death of young Lily Burk is starting to be used by certain "gavcho racist segments" of the population and press as Zeitgeist for promoting even further racist and class conscious get tough on crime laws and the propping up of the corrupted prison industrial complex?
“Anyone counseling a less militant approach is counseling self-defeat. As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population. By comparison, there were only 727 white male inmates per 100,000 white men.While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men.Most whites do not want to hear about racial problems, and President Obama would rather walk through fire than spend his time dealing with them. We’re never going to have a serious national conversation about race. So that leaves it up to ordinary black Americans to rant and to rave, to demonstrate and to lobby, to march and confront and to sue and generally do whatever is necessary to stop a continuing and deeply racist criminal justice outrage.”
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I don’t respond to the trolls comments, no matter how ignorant, xenophobic and now homophobic (joto is a very low down word for a homosexual male in slang Spanish), or vitriolic.
Oh yeah? So you morph into some other outrageous dipshit creation. A multi-faceted shape-shifter w/all the dire results of a Portrait of Dorian Gray... A true Svengali of the "loopy set". A joker not yet tired (or should I repeat RETIRED?)There's always room for another silly mexicano on the short bus to swellville. Hop on bored, but you must be REALLY bored to read this.
Who in they're right mind would utter a word like "joto" in the company of all those vitriolic right-wing nativists and potential mini-men? There Xenophobic stances and gentrifying ways are reminiscent of The Meros who studied Sun-Tzu's Art of War and sought to stab junebugs in the ass. to "cut off thier flanks" if you will. All this on the quest for Aztlan? All this draconian suppression by the likes of ICE and the migras in general. It's all caused by the Mayas. You know it and I know it. From the time that deluded redneck shot MLK in Atlanta we've most of us known the Illuminati has chosen the tribes of Culiacan and Matamoros to infiltrate the black ghettos del Norte and undermine the economy and the prevalence of quality pancake houses. Jimmy Dean sausage is almost ready for an Obama bailout. How soon ya think that'll happen?
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