I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Racist 1866 Campaign Poster from Democratic candidate, Hiester Clymer, currently stored digitally, here, in the US Library of Congress
White Americans’ Support for Prison-Industrial Complex Grows With Knowledge That It’s Harder on Blacks:
http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/07/othering-the-prison-population
(Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason) One of the rallying cries of the criminal justice reform crowd, including us here at Reason, is that American policing policies disproportionately harm blacks and other minorities. These days even mainstream politicians like Rand Paul have been sounding this alarm—he recently told a Rotary Club crowd in Shelbyville, Kentucky, that “the war on drugs has had a disproportionate racial outcome.” The ostensible purpose of pointing to these disparities is to showcase how unfair and subjective our law enforcement can be. But according to a new study published in Psychological Science, this may not be what the average white person takes away.
Being made aware of the racial composition of America’s prisons actually bolsters white Americans’ support for intrusive policing and harsh sentencing policies, according to Stanford University researchers Rebecca Hetey and Jennifer Eberhardt.
(Read Entire Article Here…)
My Commentary: In the battle against tyranny, many of us understand the importance of “know[ing] thy enemy”…
But, “what about your friends?”
Upon stripping away the thin veneer of “political affiliations,” and allowing Individual thoughts and actions to take their rightful place as the only real indicators of character, it turns out that many of these pale-skinned “progressives” from NYC and California are just as pathetically ignorant and racist as their neo-conned counterparts! And, so long as these half-stepping wannabes think that police and courts are mostly targeting brown skin, at least 73% of them comfortably lend their full and faithful consent and support to the American Police State!!! For these human race traitors, “innocent until proven guilty” is their own “white privilege,” instead of a universal RIGHT for all!
Meanwhile, a closer inspection of the facts exposes their elected “representatives” to be NO DIFFERENT! These narrow-minded slime-balls have been spewing their thinly-veiled racism into the public arena, time and time again, with little fear of backlash! (Click Here to Continue Reading This Post) →
