Kerry's Lying
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| Tue, 07-13-2004 - 9:29am |
"We've got more African Americans in jail than we do in college. That's unacceptable," he added.In fact, it seems that there are more than twice as many African Americans in college than in jail.
U.S. Census Bureau (2000): African Americans in college: 2,224,181
U.S. DoJ Office of Justice Programs: "Prison and Jail Inmates at MidYear 2003" (p.11): "Table 13. Number of inmates in state or federal prisons or local jails" -- Black Americans in jail: 899,200.
Those nearly 900,000 incarcerated African Americans still represent a tragic waste of lives and potential. But fortunately, things are not nearly as gloomy as John Kerry wants to believe they are.
It's possible that Kerry is basing his claims on other data, but it would be interesting to learn what his sources are.
UPDATE: As a commenter notes below, this Kerry howler was already debunked a month ago. But then why is Kerry still making the same claim today? What kind of an echo chamber is his campaign that none of the staff read Kerry's sharpest critics? Not a good sign for those who look to Kerry to improve intelligence capabilities or cure government agencies of their dysfunctional groupthink culture.
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INITIAL POST: I hate hamburger -bob1
RE: me too -ed234
RE: yeah, it tastes bad, I think. -Fredifier007
RE: I agree, not as good as say.... sausage. -shirtoninohio
RE: amen to that. -bob1
RE: so..... what else do you guys hate? -ed234
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I can spend hours amusing myself this way.
Thanks for replying, and If I could give you a certian reason I would, but I can't, so Hopefully, water under the bridge, I do like to read your posts, you definitely have a different point of view than most of us, and that is a good thing to have here.
thanks again.
And thank you, the note was heartfelt, as I've said to myself many times that some of these people are great in their posts.
On the other hand, I feel that there are many immature and foolish people here, including some that can't seem to put a sentence together with any sort of clarity. Again, there are examples on each side, but the ones that irritate me the most are those that repeat what their respective party has set out in doctrine without backing it up with anything from the real world, or even real opinions of their own, IMHO. I appreciate more the people who state the opinions they have developed through life experiences rather than purely reading the pamphlets and listening to the airwave zealots on their party's side.
I also appreciate those that know to proofread their messages before posting them. We all make typos, but at least make sure the message can be understood, please!
you are an awesome poster... making me look up words and everything!
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So goes the art of conversation, the more passionate, the more mistakes we make, even ask my kids, when I am call them by the wrong name and stutter and stumble to make a point when I am obscenely mad.
I am not always so eloquent....
LOL.
Djie is from the Netherlands, not Germany, and you did not even spell the phrase
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Hey Alicia2210!
Welcome to the board, and thank you for coming out of "lukerdom"!
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Well in the immortal words of another poster, when I first came here people were very vicious. Even now(I include myself in this) many posters use words like: stupid, biased, racist,ignorant, your not American, grow up, etc. So I can't see how your little 3 words is any worse than that.
But you have made great points after those words, and I think that is why people are choosing to harp on the first sentence. I don't think anyone has commented on the last part of your post, why is that?
So, I thank all of you for sharing your postitions and information. I'm glad that you all do take the time to post in this forum. You may not think that you will ever change someones mind, but the information you share can help others, and the way you present that information will also have an effect. At some point, it gets hard to separate hatefullness from the information being presented, it kind of taints that information for me. It's like when a company has to dis another companies product to lift up and support their own, either it can stand on it's own merit, or it can't stand. That's why I don't watch TV and political ads.
Thanks again! I'm glad that there are some Americans with passion regarding the people they support for our leaders. I know that way too many of us are voting a ticket b/c we just don't know any better.
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