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Silky Pony: All black men will be dead or in prison

I guess when you’re forced to accept federal matching funds for your campaign, it’s safe to say that you’re not doing very well.  Nevertheless, the Breck Girl is doing his level best to stay in the headlines.  When he’s not promising to cure cancer and make the paralyzed walk, the soothsayer notes thusly:

Edwards: ‘Pretty Soon We’re Not Going to Have a Young African-American Male Population in America.’

Asked about what he could do about “inner-city kids partaking in violence” at the MTV/MySpace Forum yesterday, Democratic candidate John Edwards offered an apocalyptic prediction for young black males:

“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

Hyperbole much? Despite popular misperception and those who find it a convenient talking point to illustrate inescapable racism, there are more young African-American men in college than in prison. In 2005, according to the Census Bureau, there were 864,000 black men in college. According to Justice Department statistics, there were 802,000 in federal and state prisons and jails; between the ages of 18 and 24, however, black men in college outnumber those incarcerated by 4 to 1. 

Dude.  Please.  Stop.  Seriously.  Drink a large jug of STFU juice and go away already. If the good people of your own state didn’t want your crap anymore, what makes you think anyone else does either?

What an incredibly racist thing to say! I don’t have to tell you what the outrage would have been (and the coverage it would have received) had a Republican said the same thing, do I?

September 28, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | bigotry, John Edwards