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59. First of all

I'm not 'bragging.' I'm pointing out data.

Second, the discrepancy between black and white rates is high all over the country. In no state is it even remotely equal. Still, in Georgia (and most of the rest of the deep south) the rates are a lot closer than in some other places.

The national rates are 412 and 2290, meaning the black rate nationally is 5.5 times higher. In Georgia the rate is 3.3 times higher. That's high, but again, it's a lot less than the national discrepancy at 5.5 times. Not a great situation of course, but still better than the country at large.

But check out Wisconsin, where the rates are 415 to 4416. That's a whopping 10.6 times higher rate for African-Americans. In Iowa, the rates are 309 and 4200. That's an even more whopping 13.6 times higher rate.

So to recap, in Georgia blacks are locked up at 3.3 times the rate white are. In Wisconsin they are locked up 10.6 times more often and in Iowa, 13.6 times more often. Both of those states have a discrepancy more than twice the national rate and well over three times that of Georgia.

So when you're talking inequality in the rates, Georgia continues to look better than many states. It looks WAY better than those I used in my examples above.

That's not 'bragging.' It's just the numbers.