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Translation: "A black man is familiar with freedom in America. Here it is, uncle Tom's cabin."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Land of the free...

I'd like to compare with stats for other parts of the world.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

Damn. Glad I'll never go to that backwards ass shithole country.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What was that? The land of the free?

Whoever told you that is your enemy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is this an anti-flag lyric? It sounds so familiar

edit: wait it's rage against the machine isn't it

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 5 days ago (15 children)

By age 23, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males and 38 percent of white males have been arrested.

https://www.albany.edu/news/45558.php

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Why have so many people have been arrested in the US? This is crazy ridiculous.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Police state

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I'm in my 40s and have met, I don't know, at least several hundred people over my lifetime more than once. At least as far as I know none of them has been in actual prison. Few have spent their night on the jail when getting too drunk (and obviously done some stupid shit while wasted) and police have "offered" them a bed to sober up but that's it.

Obviously not in the US. I can't even imagine society where nearly every other male you encounter would've been in prison at some point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Same, except I am in the US. I suspect this is highly stratified by class, such that either nobody you know has been arrested or everybody you know has been arrested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah. I've (unfortunately) been in the US for the last few years. I'm at an university though, so most of my American peers come from a fairy rich (and mostly white) background. None of them have ever been arrested.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (9 children)

and 38 percent of white males

The headline is bad, but my expectation would have been something low like 1% for white men. 30% worse treatment for black men is bad, but it is not the expected 5000%.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (6 children)

All of those sound insanely high. If you take a group of 10 random adult men from the US, roughly four of them have been arrested?

Is a lot of it for underage drinking because that law is so far from lived reality?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm betting that this counts field arrests and not just people that are brought to the station, booked, and detained. By that definition, my close friend circle in high school would have been right in line with this numbers.

I, a white cis-man, was technically arrested twice before I was 23 (once for possession of alcohol and once for possession of marijuana) but I've never been brought to the station or read my rights. Both times a field arrest report was filled out and I was issued an appearance ticket with a court date. This was in NY so your experiences with the same crimes might be wildly different.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Roughly 25% of the country will be arrested, or put on probation at least once in their lives. That's been a steady statistic since the early '90s when Clinton signed his crime bill.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

And that is based on data only up to 2008. You know that's so much worse now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That is an insane percentage, holy crap.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago

Jesus fucking shit thats horrifying

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