African-Americans and Hispanics make up most of the prison population in America. ... This is a reason why there are so many minorities in the prison population today. ... And for the second group of judges that were racially biased, the sentencing for the blacks was double the rate of whites (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ... African Americans make up most of the population in the jails today. ... Population (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ...

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The sentencing of death is claimed to have double standards based on these characteristics. ... The numbers are indeed higher but I don"t think that when people see these charts, they are considering the fact that the number of people and the percentages are close between the African Americans and the Caucasians, but African Americans only make up twelve percent of the population today. ... They say at www.coadp.org that there is a double standard for the rich and the poor. ...

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Hate crime legislation is discrimination. That's right, pure discrimination. But you're probably thinking this is ironic, as you've been told hate crimes are supposed to fight this very thing. And after all, this is America, the land where we're supposed to be of any gender, race, religion, or sexua...

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According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. ...

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• Grade Level: High School