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There is no doubt that if young white people were incarcerated at the same rates as young black people, the issue would be a national emergency.

Cornel West, in the introduction for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Proven fact. 

See: outrage over police brutality at OWS, but not before or after.

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