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NOLALady

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5. "a large amount of black are mentally incarcerated"

Reply to randykearse (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 9, 2012, 10:43 AM

Dec 2012

Please define?

Do you think that "a large amount of white are mentally incarcerated" also?

"the U.S. has imprisoned "a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid,"

Are you saying a large amount of black South Africans were/are mentally incarcerated?

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Agreed, definitely a good read jade3000 Dec 2012 #2

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Mass Incarceration=Job security. NOLALady Dec 2012 #3

Simple truths about Mass Incarceration randykearse Dec 2012 #4

"a large amount of black are mentally incarcerated" NOLALady Dec 2012 #5

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Post link please jade3000 Dec 2012 #9