DEMOCRATS MAKE GOOD SLAVES

The "Christian" Science Monitor reports on a new *cough* innovative solution to the labor vacuum caused by criminalization of employers who hire undocumented workers.  "We are in desperate need for hand labor," complains one farm owner.  Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI), a state labor program holds contracts with government and private companies now provides non-violent offenders jobs for such *cough* opportunities.  Other states are excited about the implications for  other labor *cough* solutions using incarcerated workers.

Meanwhile Institutional racism occurs where an institution adopts a policy, practice, or procedure that appears neutral on its face but has a disproportionately negative impact on a racial or ethnic minority group.  Human Rights Watch keeps up with race and incarceration.  According to them: The disproportionate representation of black Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented. Blacks comprise 13 percent of the national population, but 30 percent of people arrested, 41 percent of people in jail, and 49 percent of those in prison. Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision (in jail or prison, on probation or parole), compared to two percent of white adults.  One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in jail or prison, or on parole or probation in 1995. One in ten black men in their twenties and early thirties is in prison or jail. Thirteen percent of the black adult male population has lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws.  Individuals who identify themselves as Black or African-American vote Democratic between 88-77% of the time.  The poor are also overly represented  in jail since the poor can not post bail.  Some say no one reason is *cough* apparent for these facts.  Others believe it is blatant instutionalized racism.  This problem is getting worse not better.

Ironically, the article in the Monitor opens with a short story of a man serving six and a half years for possession of crack cocaine.  Michael Coyle of The Sentencing Project writes this about crack cocaine use and the racial aspect to the penalties for possession of it:

Many have submitted that the disparities illustrate something much more disturbing, namely, a deeply embedded racist and classist undertone to our society’s political, legal and law enforcement structure.

In its February 2002 testimony before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights reports that despite similar drug use rates between minorities and whites, minorities are disproportionately subject to the penalties for both types of cocaine. Congress has not lacked this information, as the Commission has been reporting it for over a decade.

The disparity cited for African Americans in jail are the highest of any race, but all minorities share in this disparity to some extent.  Using even the simplest vodka marinated cell in my head I know that if A leads to B and B leads to C then A leads to C. 

I find it shocking that an organization calling itself "Christian" would report on the solution to our labor shortage as to take the poor and ostracized this way.  Christ never preached that, and as an atheist I even know better.

This trend is the re re-authorization of slavery in America and the victims are Democrats.