Zippy Hamsterlips.

"Did you catch that? For Dr. Land – and surely for many of us who share his privileged position – it is a myth that threads of racism still run through our country. I wonder how Dr. Land would explain why in my state of Illinois almost 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for drug use are African American; this despite the relatively equal drug use among white and black people. And, apart from ongoing racial injustice, how are we to understand the tragedy that in many cities young black men are more likely to go to prison than to college? Or that 80 percent of the black male workforce in my city faces the crushing weight of a felony conviction?"