[Joshua Brown <josh@undertone.com>]
quoted 4 lines well, Metallica were once great and then sold out... recent evidence being
> well, Metallica were once great and then sold out... recent evidence being
> the whole Napster debacle... I think Aphex supporting a racist war against
> freedom in America and worldwide in which millions of good people have
> their lives ruined or are killed is probably even worse.
Everybody blew up about the "racist" part of this, so I thought I'd
offer up so info to support it.
1 in 3 black men is in some step of the prison/parole system as we speak
(that's 5 times the percentage for whites)
12% of the population is black but 50% of prisons and 44% of jails are
black.
72% of people in prison are there on drug charges.
Black unemployment is double that of white.
Three out of four drug users are White (non-Latino), but Blacks are much
more likely to be arrested for drug offenses and receive longer
sentences. As the Sentencing Project reports, Blacks constitute 13
percent of all past-month drug users, but 35 percent of arrests for drug
possession, 55 percent of convictions, and 74 percent of prison
sentences. Almost 90 percent of people sentenced to state prison for
drug possession in 1992 were Black or Latino
80 percent of cocaine users are white. (LA Times)
I could go on and on, but I think you see the point.
I know that the anti-PC-white-males-are-the-minority thing has become
really popular lately, but it's a bunch of BS. Racism still exists and
people shouldn't assume that it doesn't.
An even more important point, though, is that most of this is even more
classist than it is racist (see unemployment figures and find out how
they coincide with drug charges).
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