On 21 Mar 2000, at 18:12, Graham Young wrote:
Hi all,
Our friend Karen wanted to know how a law, like mandatory sentencing, can be
racist.
Well....
Some 2% of non-Aboriginal people appearing in the Courts get custodial
sentences, yet some 26% of Aboriginal people get custodial sentences! That's
not racist?
In Victoria, and Western Europe the general rate of incarceration is:
80:100,000
In WA its:
220:100,000
unless you are an indigenous woman when it is:
555:100,000
or an indigenous man when it is:
5,666:100,000
A rate acknowledged by international academics as higher than South Africa
during apartheid. But no-one is going to boycott the Sydney Olympics are they?
Indeed when a Nyoongar man calls for an Aboriginal and black boycott, He is
branded as a pariah, and not the system that produces these figures!!!
The Wizard of Oz built his yellow brick road around Australia.
tra,
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