Posted on 01/30/2009 3:53:06 AM PST by Past Your Eyes
DURHAM – After the inauguration of the first black president, America is now on the precipice of changes that were never before possible, 1960s radical turned academic Angela Davis told a crowd of hundreds at the University of New Hampshire last night.
The vestiges of slavery, colonization and exploitation remain rife throughout America, as is evidenced by the over-representation of minorities in prison, Davis said. The prison population, now estimated to be one in 100 adult Americans, only contributes to the oppression of minorities, she said.
It is a pattern seen across the country, even in New Hampshire, Davis said.
In the Granite State, white men are arrested at a rate of 289 per 100,000, but for black men it is more than 2,000 per 100,000, Davis said.
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My wife and I went back there for our 25th reunion back in ‘94. I found it hard to believe that we had actually called the place home for 4 years. It was like a foreign land to us that day.
(Actually, the main reason we went there was to see a performance of “1776” in the Paul Arts Center, Johnson Theater.)
I just got an email from the UNH police department. There is a bomb scare on campus. Funny. I thought Angela Davis had gone home.
so criminals should be punished on the basis of skin color? if they are white they can go to prison but if they are black they shouldn’t?
“Davis is spouting the same old lies.”
Yep.
I think she was hoping that question wouldn’t be asked.
"Nappy headed hoes"?
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