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Racial Profiling, Black Crime, and Criminal Justice

Published on May 22, 2016 By sirrahc

“Though prosecutors and judges may well make discriminatory judgments, such decisions do not account for more than a small fraction of the overrepresentation of blacks in prison.”  — James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein, Crime and Human Nature Once again (as I did here, here, and here), I would like to cite from Jason L. […]

If I Was Black, This Is What I Would Say…

Published on March 4, 2010 By sirrahc

Yeah, I said “Black”. Got a problem with that? I know some people may be offended by that term, but then others say they prefer to be called “Black”, precisely because it’s more encompassing than “African-American” (e.g., it includes Haitians, Dominicans, Jamaicans, Barbadans, some Cubans & Brazilians, etc.). And, the mere fact that I felt […]