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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (3200)7/14/2004 2:54:46 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Kerry Lied!!!!!!!!!!!

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"We've got more African Americans in jail than we do in college. That's unacceptable," he added.
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In fact, it seems that there are more than twice as many African Americans in college than in jail.
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U.S. Census Bureau (2000): African Americans in college: 2,224,181

U.S. DoJ Office of Justice Programs: "Prison and Jail Inmates at MidYear 2003" (p.11): "Table 13. Number of inmates in state or federal prisons or local jails" -- Black Americans in jail: 899,200.
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Those nearly 900,000 incarcerated African Americans still represent a tragic waste of lives and potential. But fortunately, things are not nearly as gloomy as John Kerry wants to believe they are.

It's possible that Kerry is basing his claims on other data, but it would be interesting to learn what his sources are.

UPDATE: As a commenter notes below, this Kerry howler was
already debunked a month ago. But then why is Kerry still
making the same claim today? What kind of an echo chamber
is his campaign that none of the staff read Kerry's
sharpest critics? Not a good sign for those who look to
Kerry to improve intelligence capabilities or cure
government agencies of their dysfunctional groupthink
culture.
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