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Old habits die hard.

We abolished slavery and then replaced it with Jim Crow laws:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

We have the biggest concentration camps in the world for primarily people of color.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_...

https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/mass-incarceration

“ Despite making up close to 5% of the global population, the U.S. has nearly 25% of the world’s prison population. Since 1970, our incarcerated population has increased by 700% – 2.3 million people in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth and crime.

One out of every three Black boys born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime, as can one of every six Latino boys—compared to one of every 17 white boys.”

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You think that's bad? Wait until you hear about the horrible service I got from my local garage the other day. Took my car in for a routine service and the staff were completely unprofessional and rude. Didn't do the job I asked of them and then had the gall to charge a fortune for it. What a rip-off!

Just thought I'd mention that, since the theme is apparently "random complaints which have nothing whatsoever to do with the linked article".

We are reminded daily in the USA that 9-11 was not about outside terror but inside terror trying to grab power through injecting fear into a system to attempt to over throw it using the effing same BS that stared the civil war

Pathetic response. The OP gave context to the human condition that allows this and another example where such problems are entrenched.

But I do hope you find a better garage to get your car serviced at.

All the best.

Related tangent: this is why the U.S. foreign policy of "winning hearts and minds" is such garbage.

Cultures change, but at much lower frequency than the U.S. government's capability to do more than vaguely encourage.

It's a bit sad that this is so down voted. I like to come to HN to read a bit and discuss but each time I come I get reminded of the prevailing demographic and it sucks

It would definitely be nice if we had less crime. Anyway, this is not relates to the article. Go preach somewhere else.

The fish is the last to know it lives in water.

The crime self perpetuates by breaking up families (a parent is in prison), using the criminal record to exclude people from jobs leading them to resort to... crimes

The nation can collectively pursue different solutions to increase productivity as well as its own domestic security.

you need to dig deeper to find out both the internal and external families as to why black families got broken...

are you sure I'm the one that needs to be convinced of that?

its clear we both would reach the conclusion that a more holistic solution is necessary than incarceration and the associated marginalizing

"One out of every three Black boys born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime"

You're literally repeating a White-Nationalist talking point

Disgusting

I think it would be as you say if it included "because of race". But it sounded more like it implied "because of systemic racism/classism"

>We have the biggest concentration camps in the world for primarily people of color.

Hyperbole much.

You should worry more about how such a small portion of the population can commit so much crime per capita, much more than any other demographic, even accounting for some bias of law enforcement.

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