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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:07 PM Jan 2015

Bernie Sanders: Today the U.S. has more people in jail than any other country....

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Bernie Sanders: Today the U.S. has more people in jail than any other country.... (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2015 OP

There's a reason... Neon Gods Jan 2015 #1

Neon Gods

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1. There's a reason...

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Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:19 PM

Jan 2015

...that our jail population is so large, and a reason why that population is so overwhelmingly Black, and those reasons are the same: to get the mythical, scary, black "thugs" off the streets because they scare the bigots that run our country. It also explains why so many whites own guns and passionately defend gun ownership.

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