unnecessary vulgarity

“Certainly we live in a nation that’s committed to first class jails and second class schools.” -Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia University

within the borders of the

united states lies 5% of

the world’s total

population & within those

same borders, ¼ of the

world’s total prison

population also exists.

 

for every 100,000 people in

the united states, 743 of

them are in prison---this

beats russia coming in at

2^nd with 557 per 100,000,

& china in 3^rd with 120

per 100,000.

 

40% of those behind bars

in the united states are

african-american males.

 

70% of those behind bars

are non-whites &

since 1980’s ineffectual

“war on drugs,” the

amount of people imprisoned

in the united states had

quadrupled---primarily due

to the mandatory sentencing

which the “war” entails,

placing harsh sentences on

those convicted of mere

possession & trafficking.

 

bail is very often set higher for

african-american men than for

white men, and in conjunction with

such policies, the amount of

representation which they see in

the blessed

governmental structure.

 

& just for shites & giggles,

mr. stephen raphael

prof. of public policy at

berkeley in cali came up

with an experiment.

 

he had a white male & an

african-american male

(both without any criminal

record)

apply for the same jobs.

 

should we pause so the

suspense can build?

 

the white male got a callback

34% of the time, where as

14% of the time the african-

american male received a

callback.

 

should we go on to speak about the amazing

education system in the

united states

and how its budget continues to get slashed every year

by those that take that money and spend it on

more

guns

&

bombs

so that we can spread the empire far and wide across the globe,

in our relentless attempt to strangle every last drop of

natural resources out of those that can hardly defend

themselves

against

our

never-halting

hegemony?

 

hmmm.

 

and i’m sure there’s no correlation between individuals that

get a good education growing up & the rate in which they are

incarcerated.

 

yes, and i’m sure that all these individuals in prison for measly

drug violations, are certainly doing the families that they have on the outside

a lot of good

on the

inside---because we have decided

that treating them the same as you

would a murderer or a rapist or

a child molester,

is a much better

solution

than trying to medicate

the situation by actually helping the communities in which they live---

investing the money that we choose instead to spend on

killing

the

those

abroad,

destroying even more families,

incinerating people that we will never even know the

faces of.

 

yeah, certainly,

using profanity in a creative piece is a much more vulgar thing than

what is actually happening in the

world.

 

right?