A full one third of the residents in Freddy Gray's neighborhood is in the state penitentiary.
From "The Washington Post" (Big Thank You and Thank you, "Morning Joe" for bringing it to the program.)
April 30, 2015
By Christopher Ingram
Inequality in Baltimore (click here) has been thrust into the national spotlight this week, with riots and civil unrest in that city following the funeral of Freddie Gray. This inequality has roots that stretch deep into the past. It's been exasperated by bad policy decisions in the present-day. And it makes itself felt in every aspect of life in the city, from the racial composition of neighborhoods to the number of empty houses standing in them.
For another illustration, let's look at a hypothetical case of two babies born on the same day this year in Baltimore. One is born in Roland Park, a wealthy neighborhood in the north of the city. The other is born just three miles away in Downtown/Seton Hill, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods....
The people in neighborhoods like this throughout the country find it impossible to break the reality of having a life defined by crime and punishment. The cost of the law enforcement and imprisonment in these neighborhoods justifies the reason this country has to do better.
The opposition to completely unnecessary deaths in this will not end. In remembering Eric Garner (click here) his one purpose for his life was to educate his children to get them out of the cycle of poverty and imprisonment. He is gone from his children's lives over a lousy cigarette he sold for $1.00. This is a very sick country and we have to bring this to the elections of 2016 and resolve to end the illness the USA suffers.
April 30, 2015
By Alexander Burns
From "The Washington Post" (Big Thank You and Thank you, "Morning Joe" for bringing it to the program.)
April 30, 2015
By Christopher Ingram
Inequality in Baltimore (click here) has been thrust into the national spotlight this week, with riots and civil unrest in that city following the funeral of Freddie Gray. This inequality has roots that stretch deep into the past. It's been exasperated by bad policy decisions in the present-day. And it makes itself felt in every aspect of life in the city, from the racial composition of neighborhoods to the number of empty houses standing in them.
For another illustration, let's look at a hypothetical case of two babies born on the same day this year in Baltimore. One is born in Roland Park, a wealthy neighborhood in the north of the city. The other is born just three miles away in Downtown/Seton Hill, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods....
The people in neighborhoods like this throughout the country find it impossible to break the reality of having a life defined by crime and punishment. The cost of the law enforcement and imprisonment in these neighborhoods justifies the reason this country has to do better.
The opposition to completely unnecessary deaths in this will not end. In remembering Eric Garner (click here) his one purpose for his life was to educate his children to get them out of the cycle of poverty and imprisonment. He is gone from his children's lives over a lousy cigarette he sold for $1.00. This is a very sick country and we have to bring this to the elections of 2016 and resolve to end the illness the USA suffers.
April 30, 2015
By Alexander Burns
The death of Eric Garner (click here) at the hands of the police on Staten Island has given rise to protests, marches and a federal civil rights inquiry, and brought national attention to the borough’s district attorney, Daniel M. Donovan Jr., when a grand jury declined to bring charges.
But
in the special election in the 11th Congressional District in New York,
where Mr. Donovan is the favorite to win on Tuesday, the Garner case
has been reduced to a faint echo.
The
election, to fill a vacant House seat representing Staten Island and
part of Brooklyn, might have been expected to become part of the
heightened debate over race and policing: a clash, at the ballot box,
over the issues that have fueled civil unrest in parts of the country,
most recently in Baltimore, where riots erupted after another black man
died in police custody....
