Gun control hypocrisy at its best

[JamesSchacht]

121. Gun violence and race

• American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
• While white neighborhoods are becoming slightly more diverse, African-Americans and Latinos remain concentrated in highly segregated neighborhoods devoid of white people.
• The United States accounts for 5 percent of the global population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners. More than 60 percent of America's 2.4 million inmates are people of color.
• Just before the 2012 election, white unemployment stood at roughly 6.8 percent, while the black rate was 13.4 percent and the Hispanic rate was 9.2 percent.
• Wealth gaps between whites and blacks and whites and Hispanics reached record levels during Obama's first term.
• In late 2012, black and Hispanic men were dropping out of the workforce at a faster rate than their female counterparts as men's participation in the work force fell to its lowest rate on record.


-- Michael P. Jeffries, “Obama's Chicago Speech Can't Address Gun Violence Unless It Takes on Race,” The Atlantic, February 15, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/obamas-chicago-speech-cant-address-gun-violence-unless-it-takes-on-race/273200/.