Instead, I'll Post This...

I have a truely Alaskan (well, almost) video clip I'd like to post, but it's large enough I'm having trouble with the e-mail shuffle that I have to go through to get content posted on the net.

But now, while I have your attention, I need to shout this:
There are those who'll spout that the US prison system is racist since the number of minorities in it does not reflect the ethnic profile of this country. They would have you believe that the disproportionate number of whites in prison shows a racial bias by our court system.

I'd like to use a little logical razor I keep concealed in my watchband and disembowel this arguement right before your eyes. Who knows, with some luck, we may even see another silly idological arguement slip into the grue and become entangled in the entrails as we watch.

Can allegations of racism in the US Courts be substianated by the disproportionate number of minorities in prison? If it can, then the same logic must be applied to the disproportionate number of men in prison to show that the US Courts are more sexist than they are racist.

According to 2002 data about 35% of the prison population is white. In a nation that is 75% white (not sure the year of this data), the prison population is about 47% of what you'd expect. This is almost half.

Now looking at gender, the US's population is over 51% female. June 2004 saw 2,131,180 prisoners, of which 103,310 were female. This is less than 5% of the prison population. A number that is out of proportion by a factor greater than ten, if you are to follow this logic.

Maybe they are in prison because they did it. Maybe there are differences between men and women.

So there we have it. A lame cry of racism writhing and slipping on the ground and a silly feminist position entangled in the grue.

APPENDIX (pun intended!):
What got me started on this is the 5 Muslim men recently arrested. The MSM tells you that they are Muslim and leaves the conclusion to you. It is as if they cannot bring themselves to say anything bad about what the intentions of the Wahabi and other Muslim extremists is.

They are dancing the line of interpretation as well as Kerry, Hillary, or Gore ever did. The Liberal Elites can take no offense in this reporting since they are saying nothing negative about these practicioners of a peaceful religeon. Everyone else draws the conclusion that they were planning a terror attack that was thwarted and the media reported this accurately. How can two groups with such opposing views accept the same story?

Simple, the MSM tells stories with gaping holes and lets us fill in what we want to hear. We do this without thinking about it. Next time you hear a news story, not a train wreck like the 4 fathers getting electrocuted at the Boy Scout Jamboree that is sure to develope feelings of sympathy for those involved, but has absolutely nothing to do with you, me, or National Security, but a real news story, listen for what they don't tell you.

What's this have to do with prison populations? Simple. Some cultures are more violent and prone to killing than others. Some may be sub-cultures like Gansta Rappah's or national cultures like Wahabi Islam. But identifying one as such doesn't make you racist.