Ferguson decision: A call to end criminalization of black youths: guest opinion

The Birmingham News ^ | December 26, 2014 | Ebony Howard, Sr. Staff Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center

[bkopto]

Any discussion of of black criminality without addressing the dysfunctional black family, along with welfare dependence, is fundamentally unserious.

[trebb]

It can be seen in statistics that show black children are expelled at three times the rate of white children for similar instances of misconduct. Even in preschool, black children make up 18 percent of preschool enrollment, but are 42 percent of preschool students suspended once. They are almost half (48 percent) of preschoolers suspended more than once.

Suspensions do not help these children.

Suspensions aren't designed to help them any more than prison time helps a convict - the punishment is designed to teach them something if they are able/willing tolearn it.

The suspensions also prevent harm and problems for the students who wish to actually learn w/o threats/disruptions.

To stop suspending those who will not assimilate into school life would be to punish those who are there to learn while leaving the disruptions free to do their mischief.

[SaraJohnson]

Good point about SPLC’s involvement in the attack on the Family Research Council. Also, they got themselves involved in educating cops about white racist groups like the Family Research Council, constitutionalists, second amendment supporters, or any other good group they hate.

[wita]

I’ll drink to that. SPLC deserves an automatic barf alert.