Reply #18: cart before the horse

[MH1]

it's the incarceration rate that creates the situation. A guy is around, then he's not, and the gal needs to have a guy around to help out, so baby daddy #2 comes along ... then he goes away ...

We KNOW that there have been race-based sentencing disparities, for example crack vs. powder cocaine. Also a black guy stopped and found with small amounts of drugs is a lot more likely to be arrested and charged than a white guy in the same situation, and of those arrested and charged is more likely to go to prison for the same offense.

Sure it's circular and what you say is true too, but the first step is to stop throwing black people in jail just for being born black.