loytrf wrote:
Hi everyone, I think that every person has his right to live in a society no matter even if he was a prisoner in his early life. Most of the prisoners are racial or ethnic minorities and have difficulty in re-entering the society as they are faced with poverty and this leads to crime for which they are re-arrested are convicted and re-incarcerated and this adds a burden on the government in respect of tax-payers. What are your views on this?
Without getting into a huge rant regarding the systemic racism faced by minorities in Canada (mostly First Nations, but again, not ranting this time) I am reminded of a quote from the movie Crash:
Flanagan: Fucking black people, huh?
Graham: What did you just say?
Flanagan: I mean, I know all the sociological reasons why, per capita eight times more black men are incarcerated than white men... Schools are a disgrace, lack of opportunity, bias in the judicial system, all that stuff... But still... but still, it's... it's gotta get to you, I mean, on a gut level, as a black man. They just can't keep their hands out of the cookie jar.
Flanagan: Actually, we were thinking of you until we saw that. It's your brothers file. Twenty something years old and already three felonys. Three Strikes Law, the kid's going away for life for stealing a car. Christ, that's a shitty law. There's a warrant in there. But still, he had every opportunity you had. Fucking black people, huh?
for those of you who haven't seen the movie...go see it, FANTASTIC, Flanagan is a white lawyer...or something, white anyway, and Graham is a black detective.
There are opportunities abound out there, the change must come from within, the offender must make the choice to stop the life of BS crime and slip in line with the norms of society.
CKA Uber 
