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04/15/2008: "Two Separate Societies: One in Prison, One Not"

Forty years ago, the Kerner Commission concluded in its landmark study of the causes of racial disturbances in the United States in the 1960s: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal." Today we are still moving toward two societies: one incarcerated and one not. The Pew Center on the States released a study in February showing that for the first time in this country's history, more than one in every 100 adults is in jail or prison. According to the Justice Department, 7 million people -- or one in every 32 adults -- are either incarcerated, on parole or probation or under some other form of state or local supervision.

African Americans now comprise more than half of all prisoners, up from a third three decades ago.

[ African Americans need to live in their own society with their own values. These statistics also show the dysgenic trend in society, with increasingly inferior people being born. ]

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