Quote from: 311 on June 02, 2015, 12:18:40 PM

Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 01, 2015, 03:29:36 PM

Quote from: 311 on June 01, 2015, 07:39:32 AM

Wow, this is exactly what's usually wrong with the American justice system. Rich white kids usually get off whilst poor black people get thrown in jail for relatively minor crimes. Should white guys be given get out of jail free cards now?

OK. Got it. According to your logic, Ross Ullbricht should be punished, since he happened to have white skin and blue eyes. There are very few whites imprisoned right now (it doesn't matter that they make up 50% of the prison population). So we need to jail more Whites, in order to maintain the "racial equilibrium". Grin

No, amazon4u is making an argument that people like Ross should are more likely to be rehabilated or be more useful to society which is bullshit. If he was such a smart and educated guy he wouldn't have got caught or made a load of silly mistakes, not to mention trying to have people assassinated. Most drug dealers don't even go that far but he did.

Quote from: amazon4u on June 02, 2015, 01:30:56 AM

P.S - Where does Jay Z fit in all this ? This is not about race ...it is about what an individual can give back to humanity....

Because he was a drug dealer from Brooklyn, you know, the ones you think aren't ever going to make anything of their life.

If he was such a smart and educated guy he wouldn't have got caught or made a load of silly mistakes

This is how you assess how "smart and educated" is a person ?

By not getting caught...

Because he was a drug dealer from Brooklyn, you know, the ones you think aren't ever going to make anything of their life.

I don't say that, statistics and real life scenarios tend to say that. A drug dealer from Brooklyn/etc has little chances of a normal life in the long run partly because he is not educated and doesn't understand that he is being used

Stats don't lie, there is little you can achieve in life without a proper education.