04-14-2012, 07:40 PM
faulty math. assumes the punishment is the same level for blacks and whites, that blacks and whites are caught and prosecuted at the same rate, and that blacks are afforded the same opportunities to avoid such a fate as whites. Blacks are the biggest percentage of prisoners because they are convicted at a staggering rate, not because they're particularly more "evil" or "criminal" than whites in similar financial, educational, or environmental backgrounds.