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2008's Ten Worst Places to be Black
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon

“Painting an accurate picture is not difficult.  Useful measures of family income and cohesiveness, of home ownership, life expectancy, education levels, of unemployment and underemployment abound.  But among all the relevant data on the state of black America today one factor stands out: the growth of America’s public policy of racially selective policing, prosecution, and mass imprisonment of its black citizens over the past 30 years. 
The operation of the crime control industry has left a distinctive, multidimensional and devastating mark on the lives of millions of black families and on the economic and social fabric of the communities in which they live.”...SOURCE