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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As always, the media misses no opportunity to inject race into a larger problem, thus destroying our ability to discuss it intelligently.

I am from Louisiana, and the prevalence of long prison sentences is pretty stark. I didn't realize it until I left, but most people can't point at multiple childhood friends serving long prison sentences.

I went to an expensive, >90% white high school in Louisiana, and two of my classmates are serving life sentences. One got busted under a "three strikes" law (at least one strike was marijuana-related) and the other was part of a burglary where his associate struck a man with a lamp, eventually killing him. All of us are white, FWIW.

So yeah, maybe there's a problem there, but I'm not helping out with the "get black people out of prison" movement when my white brothers are suffering, too.