barbtries a blog: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17590">AlterNet: The Disturbing Death of Charles Singleton</a>

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Sunday, February 08, 2004

AlterNet: The Disturbing Death of Charles Singleton

But as with every other issue in America, race is never far from discussions of the death penalty. Blacks are just 12 percent of the overall population but 42 percent of residents on death row. Whites are 50 percent of murder victims but represent 80 percent of victims in death penalty cases. The death penalty is used to punish people of color who kill whites. Black victims of black killers get short shrift from the criminal justice system and the media, unless there is a lurid story line or celebrity involvement. Otherwise, our all too common intra-group victimization goes unnoticed.

these numbers tell the story. racism alive and well and institutionalized in the good ol' u.s. of a.

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- posted by barbara @ 2/08/2004 07:38:00 PM

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