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ORIGINAL: GotSteel

I know I've been gone a couple of days but can anyone explain to me how the last few pages have anything to do with the topic?

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ORIGINAL: TreasureKY

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ORIGINAL: Dubbelganger

That means that there should be 4 times as many white people in jail as black people. Right?

In fact, there are about 200 blacks in jail for every 100 whites.

1.  When you throw around statistics like this, kindly provide some kind of link to back up your claims.

2.  Your use of statistics (and I use that term loosely because they are unverified) in this post leads one to believe that you are assuming that the prison population consists of only drug offenders.  Among the types of offenses tracked by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, drugs only account for 51%.

3.  Your "statistics" are incorrect, anyway. 

As of April 2010, the US prison population consisted of approximately 122,000 whites and 81,000 blacks.  That is not "200 blacks for every 100 whites".  Not even close.

With blacks making up about 13% of the population of the u.s. and whites making up about 50% of the population. That is about a 4:1 ratio in the general population. The 4:1 ratio kinda falls down in the prison population ...which was the point he was making.
I noticed that you also only used federal prisons and did not include state and local prisons and jails...why???
You wouldn't try to "massage" the data would you?
Did you not notice that part of his post?
Or
Were you just ignoring it?