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Racist Suspect Bill O'Reilly: "Abolishing The Electoral College" Is "All About Race"

Media Matters

BILL O'REILLY: Abolishing the Electoral College, that is the subject of tonight's Talking Points Memo. After Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, the left in America is demanding that the Electoral College system put into place in 1787 be scrapped. But there's a hidden reason for this.

As we reported, even though Secretary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million, the progressive state of California provided all of that margin. Clinton defeating Trump there by about 4.3 million votes. So if the Electoral College were abolished, presidential candidates could simply campaign in the nation's largest states and cities,New York, L.A., Chicago, Houston, and rack up enough votes to pretty much win any election. That's what the left wants. That's what they want. Because in the large urban areas and blue states like New York and California, minorities are substantial. Look at the landscape. Philadelphia, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami. In all of these places the minority vote usually goes heavily to the Democrats. And to that New York City, L.A., Chicago, San Francisco, don't really have a national election anymore, do you? You have targeted populations. Newspapers like the New York Times and the L.A. Times have editorialized to get rid of the Electoral Cllege. They well know that neutralizing the largely white rural areas in the Midwest and South will assure liberal politicians get power and keep it. 

Talking Points believes this is all about race. The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with. Therefore white working class voters must be marginalized and what better way to do that than center the voting power in the cities. Very few commentators will tell you that the heart of liberalism in America today is based on race. It permeates almost every issue. That white men have set up a system of oppression. That system must be destroyed. Bernie Sanders pedaled that to some extent Hillary Clinton did. And the liberal media tries to sell that all day long. So-called white privilege bad. Diversity good.

If you look at the voting patterns, it's clear that the Democrats are heavily reliant on the minority vote. Also on the woman vote. White men have largely abandoned the Democrats and the left believes it's because of racism that they want to punish minorities, keep them down. So that's what's really going on when you hear about the Electoral College and how unfair it allegedly is.Summing up, the left wants power taken away from the white establishment. They want a profound change in the way America is run. Taking voting power away from the white precincts is the quickest way to do that.

Coin Operated SNigger Omarosa Joins Trump’s Transition Team

Black Enterprise

Reality star Omarosa Manigault has officially joined President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team executive committee, Politico reports.

The 42-year-old TV personality—who admitted to being a former, lifelong Democrat—dropped her ties to the Democrat Party and began helping Trump court black votes on the campaign trial in July, as his director of African American Outreach. Now, she’ll join the real estate mogul in the White House. Defending her oppression as freedom, she will serve her masters well. 

Last month, she made headlines when she claimed that the Trump campaign was keeping a list of enemies. “Let me just tell you, Mr. Trump has a long memory, and we’re keeping a list,” she said. In addition, in September she told Frontline, “Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.” Fuck Trump. 

Omarosa is a SNigger. According to Dr. Blynd, 

SNigger ---a sold-out snitching-smiling Sambo-Negro. 2) a South-Bender offender. SNiggers smile for nothing except an empty mind while selling-out their own kind. They typically have an intellectual base yet are devoid of intelligence, thus promoting the on-going smiling face. They also often giggle and have a frivolous conception of society and scant knowledge of the vestiges of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that even brought their sorry-ass selves to shore. SNiggers are traitors and pawns of the downpressors. [MORE] 

President Obama Grants granted clemency to 231 people who are deserving of a second chance

Whitehouse.gov and CNN

Today, President Obama granted clemency to 231 deserving individuals — the most individual acts of clemency granted in a single day by any president in this nation’s history. With today’s 153 commutations, the President has now commuted the sentences of 1,176 individuals, including 395 life sentences. The President also granted pardons to 78 individuals, bringing his total number of pardons to 148. Today’s acts of clemency — and the mercy the President has shown his 1,324 clemency recipients — exemplify his belief that America is a nation of second chances.

The 231 individuals granted clemency today have all demonstrated that they are ready to make use — or have already made use — of a second chance. While each clemency recipient’s story is unique, the common thread of rehabilitation underlies all of them. For the pardon recipient, it is the story of an individual who has led a productive and law-abiding post-conviction life, including by contributing to the community in a meaningful way. For the commutation recipient, it is the story of an individual who has made the most of his or her time in prison, by participating in educational courses, vocational training, and drug treatment. These are the stories that demonstrate the successes that can be achieved — by both individuals and society — in a nation of second chances.

Today’s grants signify the President’s continued commitment to exercising his clemency authority through the remainder of his time in office. In 2016 alone, the President has granted clemency to more than 1,000 deserving individuals. The President continues to review clemency applications on an individualized basis to determine whether a particular applicant has demonstrated a readiness to make use of his or her second chance, and I expect that the President will issue more grants of both commutations and pardons before he leaves office. The mercy that the President has shown his 1,324 clemency recipients is remarkable, but we must remember that clemency is a tool of last resort and that only Congress can achieve the broader reforms needed to ensure over the long run that our criminal justice system operates more fairly and effectively in the service of public safety.

Racist Suspect Megyn Kelly Can't Name Any Black Staffers On Her Show

Media Matters

In an interview with The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple Blog, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly -- who is reportedly competing for a new contract among networks -- downplayed her role in pushing the pseudo-scandal that the Department of Justice was covering up voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party and admitted she could not name any African-American people on her staff.

In 2010, Kelly devoted more than 3.5 hours of her then-show America Live to hyping a contrived scandal about the Justice Department. The claim was that the department engaged in racially charged “corruption” in its handling of voter-intimidation claims about two members of the New Black Panther Party who appeared in a video standing outside a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008 election, one of them holding a nightstick; the other was a registered Democratic poll watcher. No one came forward to say he or she was intimidated by the two men. The story resurfaced during the 2016 election when supporters of Donald Trump used it to defend his false “rigged election” claim.

Kelly was sharply criticized for her sensationalistic coverage of the supposed scandal, with Dave Weigel -- then of The Atlantic -- calling Kelly’s coverage a “minstrel show.” Kelly’s focus on the Black Panthers constitutes just one part of her consistently insensitive and out-of-touch coverage on race issues.

During the interview, Wemple asked Kelly if it was a “fair reading” to use the Black Panthers incident to justify “Trump’s claims of the possibility of a rigged election.” Wemple, linking to Media Matters’ research in the transcript, also asked Kelly if her “pushing” of the incident “is where people draw their memory from,” to which Kelly responded, “next question.” Kelly also conceded that her show The Kelly File may not employee any African-Americans “at the moment.” Kelly’s deflection on her record comes as she is reportedly competing for contracts between networks. From the December 19 article:

[ERIK WEMPLE BLOG]: I was interested to see the photographs in your book. And you have a photograph of your staff and it sprung a question for me: You do all kinds of aggressive coverage, including on race. That staffing picture looked pretty much white, although there could be a couple of minorities in there. Do you think that for as aggressive as you are on racial issues, that you could use more diversity on the staff?

[MEGYN] KELLY: Well, I don’t know about the first part of your question. That’s not the reason. The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it’s helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It’s easier said than done, unfortunately. At Fox we started — this is one of Roger’s good legacies, the Ailes Apprentice Program, and that’s been pretty good about getting more people of color into the TV news ranks. But we don’t have enough, that’s just a fact. We don’t. And we can do better at that, just like most of the news networks can.

EWB: Do you have anyone who’s African American on the staff at this point?

KELLY: Not at the moment. Don’t hold me to that, Erik, because I’m probably forgetting somebody. Definitely we have some crew who work with me who are African American but . . . to be perfectly honest with you, I have never asked. We . . . have a couple of mixed-race people . . . I don’t know if they identify as mixed race or African American, so I don’t want to guess.

EWB: Obviously you know a lot about the whole New Black Panther issue, Philadelphia; you were famous for that. I didn’t see much mention in the book, but now, eight years later, a couple CNN pro-Trump commentators cited that incident sort of in the context of Trump talking about a rigged election. Do you think that’s a fair reading of the New Black Panther issue, sort of as grist for justifying Trump’s claims of the possibility of a rigged election?

KELLY: What do you mean, that guys like those New Black Panthers [inaudible] at the polls?

EWB: I believe Kayleigh McEnany said something to the effect that Trump “doesn’t want a scenario where there’s New Black Panthers outside with guns, essentially like intimidating people from coming into the polls.”

KELLY: That was not a widespread incident as far as we knew. That was a couple of rabble-rousers who showed up causing a bunch of nonsense at one Philadelphia polling station. I wouldn’t say you could extrapolate that to a general concern, especially because I don’t believe we saw it again in 2012. I believe it was these two guys trying to make a point in 2008; their point was made and I assume they understood the ramifications of it after the Department of Justice got involved.

EWB: Do you think that your pushing that incident is where people draw their memory from?

KELLY: Come on, Erik, next question.

EWB: No? I just wondered. I mean, you did scores of segments on it.

KELLY: You should take those scores of segments numbers with a huge grain of salt because that was some tabulation done by Media Matters that included teases. Teases!

The Suspicious Hanging Death of a Black Teen who Dated a 31 Yr Old White Woman

The Atlantic

This is the first of a three-part series called “The Hanging,” which focuses on the details surrounding the death of Lennon Lacy in Bladenboro, North Carolina. The 17-year-old was found hanging from a swing set in 2014, and while law enforcement and federal investigators ruled it a suicide, his family and the North Carolina NAACP remain unconvinced. They suspect it was murder. You can watch the second and third episodes here and here.

“The Hanging” is the result of a reporting project from Independent Lens on PBS, North Carolina’s UNC-TV, Orlando de Guzman, and WUNC reporter Leoneda Inge. This investigation was inspired by Always in Season, an upcoming documentary about the history of lynching in America, which includes an examination of the Lacy case.

"BUILD THAT WALL!" Psychopath Donald Trump Chants After Endorsement From Racist Arizona Sheriff

5/25/16

Census Bureau Lists U.S. Metropolitan areas with the largest African American populations

DilemmaX

Census Bureau statistics released today are culled from the annual American Community Survey, which provides in-depth state and regional information based on monthly interviews with individuals.

The survey looks at statistics from all 3,142 counties in the U.S. The numbers released today cover the period from 2011 to 2015.

The American Community Survey helps local officials, community leaders and businesses understand the changes taking place in their communities. It is the premier source for detailed information about the American people and workforce.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.

Through the ACS, we know more about jobs and occupations, educational attainment, veterans, whether people own or rent their home, and other topics. Public officials, planners, and entrepreneurs use this information to assess the past and plan the future. When you respond to the ACS, you are doing your part to help your community plan hospitals and schools, support school lunch programs, improve emergency services, build bridges, and inform businesses looking to add jobs and expand to new markets, and more.

By Population

	Total Metro Population	Black or African American
New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA	23,723,696	3,813,973
Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA	9,625,744	2,416,074
Atlanta–Athens-Clarke County–Sandy Springs, GA CSA	6,362,668	2,020,222
Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA	9,923,466	1,636,919
Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA	7,183,479	1,396,166
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie, FL CSA	6,654,313	1,377,806
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA	18,679,763	1,231,312
Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA	6,857,660	1,176,398
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA	7,503,731	1,124,617
Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI CSA	5,319,913	1,096,353
Memphis-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR CSA	1,370,161	641,036
Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC CSA	2,583,956	571,923
Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC CSA	1,827,009	549,774
Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH CSA	3,493,596	536,873
Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA	8,152,573	531,732
San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA	8,713,914	522,023
St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL CSA	2,917,172	516,710
New Orleans-Metairie-Hammond, LA-MS CSA	1,493,205	499,625
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC CSA	2,117,103	488,725
Orlando-Deltona-Daytona Beach, FL CSA	3,129,308	458,892
Richmond, VA Metro Area	1,246,215	373,687
Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL CSA	1,319,422	364,208
Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC CSA	1,642,506	349,665
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area	2,888,458	346,574
Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry, SC CSA	937,794	338,375
Jacksonville-St. Marys-Palatka, FL-GA CSA	1,573,606	335,762
Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS CSA	670,319	326,650
Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH CSA	2,424,831	316,623
Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN CSA	2,371,865	306,969
San Juan-Carolina, PR CSA	2,495,780	296,411
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI CSA	3,866,768	291,493
Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI CSA	2,046,692	286,014
Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro, TN CSA	1,951,597	283,660
Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS CSA	2,427,532	278,247
Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN CSA	2,217,828	263,083
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC CSA	1,426,066	261,696
Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ CSA	2,362,015	235,481
Seattle-Tacoma, WA CSA	4,602,591	232,852
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ Metro Area	4,407,915	227,743
Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR CSA	903,900	220,611
Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV CSA	2,649,496	198,858
Louisville/Jefferson County–Elizabethtown–Madison, KY-IN CSA	1,504,754	195,973
Fayetteville-Lumberton-Laurinburg, NC CSA	546,215	181,386
Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA CSA	530,661	177,149
Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA	504,052	176,115
Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City, LA CSA	627,146	170,718
Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL CSA	619,104	168,205
Montgomery, AL Metro	375,435	166,413
Sacramento-Roseville, CA CSA	2,544,026	166,145
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area	3,223,096	163,276
Denver-Aurora, CO CSA	3,418,876	161,462
Macon-Warner Robins, GA CSA	419,401	161,147
Hartford-West Hartford, CT CSA	1,483,187	152,393
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area	2,286,702	151,999
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY CSA	1,213,152	142,612
Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC CSA	302,665	141,022
Tallahassee-Bainbridge, FL-GA CSA	405,612	138,885
Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK CSA	1,430,327	138,779
Austin-Round Rock, TX Metro Area	1,889,094	138,633
Dayton-Springfield-Sidney, OH CSA	1,076,832	134,184
Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY CSA	1,175,724	131,124
Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL CSA	692,157	119,395
Monroe-Ruston-Bastrop, LA CSA	253,407	97,592
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Muskegon, MI CSA	1,433,288	95,762
Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA CSA	1,247,235	89,334
Tulsa-Muskogee-Bartlesville, OK CSA	1,150,961	89,219
Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL CSA	949,394	86,971
Cape Coral-Fort Myers-Naples, FL CSA	1,059,287	86,482
Toledo-Port Clinton, OH CSA	646,833	85,600
Greenville-Washington, NC CSA	223,493	75,304
Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA CSA	3,111,922	73,876
Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC-NC CSA	493,262	73,728
Albany-Schenectady, NY CSA	1,173,891	73,532
Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, NE-IA CSA	952,263	71,834
South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI CSA	725,065	70,792
North Port-Sarasota, FL CSA	977,491	68,181
Lexington-Fayette–Richmond–Frankfort, KY CSA	719,949	65,661
Gainesville-Lake City, FL CSA	345,229	65,239
Youngstown-Warren, OH-PA CSA	654,691	62,989
Syracuse-Auburn, NY CSA	738,746	58,319
Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville, TN CSA	1,109,429	55,515
Dothan-Enterprise-Ozark, AL CSA	248,947	54,907
Longview-Marshall, TX CSA	284,527	54,714
Wichita-Arkansas City-Winfield, KS CSA	680,290	53,990
Fresno-Madera, CA CSA	1,129,859	51,643
Kalamazoo-Battle Creek-Portage, MI CSA	530,672	46,814
Springfield-Greenfield Town, MA CSA	702,583	46,504
Tyler-Jacksonville, TX CSA	274,478	45,970
Rockford-Freeport-Rochelle, IL CSA	438,071	42,850
Fort Wayne-Huntington-Auburn, IN CSA	626,124	42,127
Lansing-East Lansing-Owosso, MI CSA	540,895	39,841
Saginaw-Midland-Bay City, MI CSA	382,598	37,452
Tucson-Nogales, AZ CSA	1,056,486	36,801
Peoria-Canton, IL CSA	412,686	36,764
El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM CSA	1,052,314	35,319
Madison-Janesville-Beloit, WI CSA	866,475	34,589
Des Moines-Ames-West Des Moines, IA CSA	782,390	32,970
New Bern-Morehead City, NC CSA	193,945	32,244
Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT CSA	2,468,347	31,150
Ponce-Coamo-Santa Isabel, PR CSA	399,540	30,660
Davenport-Moline, IA-IL CSA	475,363	29,511
Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM CSA	1,168,795	28,845
Springfield-Jacksonville-Lincoln, IL CSA	314,958	28,555
Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY CSA	692,348	26,952
Hickory-Lenoir, NC CSA	407,499	24,856
Modesto-Merced, CA CSA	806,843	23,644
Asheville-Brevard, NC CSA	480,051	23,318
Erie-Meadville, PA CSA	364,529	22,078
Lubbock-Levelland, TX CSA	335,866	20,528
Columbia-Moberly-Mexico, MO CSA	226,174	19,302
Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA CSA	432,538	19,128
Rome-Summerville, GA CSA	122,370	17,659
Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX CSA	522,751	17,320
Bloomington-Pontiac, IL CSA	225,396	16,044
Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA CSA	610,828	15,911
Jonesboro-Paragould, AR CSA	172,590	15,792
Midland-Odessa, TX CSA	324,863	15,577
Lima-Van Wert-Celina, OH CSA	219,831	14,631
Amarillo-Borger, TX CSA	283,924	14,015
Bowling Green-Glasgow, KY CSA	219,168	13,862
Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL CSA	135,550	13,436
Harrisonburg-Staunton-Waynesboro, VA CSA	251,352	13,048
DeRidder-Fort Polk South, LA CSA	87,265	12,763
Lincoln-Beatrice, NE CSA	345,457	12,740
Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA CSA	506,193	12,614
Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL CSA	136,018	12,221
Springfield-Branson, MO CSA	540,609	12,156
Hot Springs-Malvern, AR CSA	130,603	11,943
Reno-Carson City-Fernley, NV CSA	605,954	11,309
Manhattan-Junction City, KS CSA	135,575	10,595
Portland-Lewiston-South Portland, ME CSA	633,528	10,296
Lafayette-West Lafayette-Frankfort, IN CSA	247,606	9,500
Rochester-Austin, MN CSA	252,989	9,150
State College-DuBois, PA CSA	241,574	8,919
Fargo-Wahpeton, ND-MN CSA	256,616	8,819
Mansfield-Ashland-Bucyrus, OH CSA	217,226	8,498
Bloomsburg-Berwick-Sunbury, PA CSA	263,873	8,482
Elmira-Corning, NY CSA	184,702	8,362
Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d’Alene, WA-ID CSA	697,153	8,248
Victoria-Port Lavaca, TX CSA	120,935	7,705
Morgantown-Fairmont, WV CSA	195,101	7,232
Kokomo-Peru, IN CSA	118,418	7,170
Martin-Union City, TN-KY CSA	70,211	7,170
Boise City-Mountain Home-Ontario, ID-OR CSA	756,244	7,146
Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI CSA	402,553	6,598
Williamsport-Lock Haven, PA CSA	155,489	6,443
Johnstown-Somerset, PA CSA	211,933	6,368
Pueblo-Cañon City, CO CSA	210,283	5,959
Green Bay-Shawano, WI CSA	362,457	5,767
McAllen-Edinburg, TX CSA	906,099	5,761
Mayagüez-San Germán, PR CSA	227,075	5,646
Mount Pleasant-Alma, MI CSA	112,238	4,507
Bloomington-Bedford, IN CSA	211,072	4,403
Quincy-Hannibal, IL-MO CSA	116,319	3,985
Clovis-Portales, NM CSA	69,518	3,952
Sioux City-Vermillion, IA-SD-NE CSA	178,572	3,937
Dixon-Sterling, IL CSA	91,663	3,617
Ithaca-Cortland, NY CSA	153,420	3,484
Mankato-New Ulm-North Mankato, MN CSA	124,447	3,380
Findlay-Tiffin, OH CSA	131,183	3,269
Richmond-Connersville, IN CSA	91,100	3,211
Redding-Red Bluff, CA CSA	242,841	2,940
Joplin-Miami, MO-OK CSA	209,192	2,146
Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI CSA	307,691	2,078
Eau Claire-Menomonie, WI CSA	210,133	1,886
Medford-Grants Pass, OR CSA	297,312	1,884
Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville, TX CSA	444,308	1,862
Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, WV-OH CSA	153,888	1,836
Pullman-Moscow, WA-ID CSA	86,955	1,328
Rapid City-Spearfish, SD CSA	170,176	1,211
Bend-Redmond-Prineville, OR CSA	198,233	1,128
Edwards-Glenwood Springs, CO CSA	131,661	723
Moses Lake-Othello, WA CSA	112,514	539
Idaho Falls-Rexburg-Blackfoot, ID CSA	236,486	219 [MORE]

Study Finds that 95 % of the Nation’s Elected State and Local Prosecutors are White

NY Times

Sixty-six percent of states that elect prosecutors have no blacks in those offices, a new study has found, highlighting the lack of diversity in the ranks of those entrusted to bring criminal charges and negotiate prison sentences.

About 95 percent of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the country in 2014 were white, and 79 percent were white men, according to the study, which was to be released on Tuesday by the San-Francisco-based Women Donors Network. By comparison, white men make up 31 percent of the population of the United States.

The numbers are being released as debate continues about racial imbalances in the criminal justice system in the wake of police-related deaths in Ferguson, Mo.; Staten Island; and Baltimore.

While the racial makeup of police forces across the country has been carefully documented, the diversity of prosecutors, who many law enforcement experts say exercise more influence over the legal system, has received little scrutiny. Prosecutors decide in most criminal cases whether to bring charges. And, because so many criminal cases end in plea bargains, they have a direct hand in deciding how long defendants spend behind bars.

“What this shows us is that, in the context of a growing crisis that we all recognize in criminal justice in this country, we have a system where incredible power and discretion is concentrated in the hands of one demographic group,” said Brenda Choresi Carter of the Women Donors Network, who led the study.

The data was compiled and analyzed by the Center for Technology and Civic Life, a nonpartisan group that specializes in aggregating civic data sets. The Women Donors Network, which undertook the project, is composed of about 200 female philanthropists who promote a variety of causes, including diversification of elected officials by race, class and sex.

Researchers looked at all elected city, county and judicial district prosecutors, as well as state attorneys general, in office across the country during the summer of 2014. Kentucky had the most elected prosecutors, 161, and four states — Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire and New Jersey — had none that were counted by the study.

Although the study found that 14 states had exclusively white elected prosecutors — Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming — there are only 13 because Connecticut’s attorney general exercises only civil jurisdiction and is not a prosecutor. In Kentucky and Missouri, which also has more than 100 elected prosecutors, all but one was white, according to the analysis.

The study also found that 16 percent of elected prosecutors were white women, 4 percent were minority men and 1 percent were minority women.

“I think most people know that we’ve had a significant problem with lack of diversity in decision-making roles in the criminal justice system for a long time,” said Bryan A. Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a group that offers legal representation for poor defendants and prisoners. “I think what these numbers dramatize is that the reality is much worse than most people imagine and that we are making almost no progress.”

Mr. Stevenson said that while African-Americans had increased in number in mayoral positions and police forces in recent decades, the numbers suggested that the prosecutorial field had not kept pace.

Melba V. Pearson, a Miami lawyer and the president of the National Black Prosecutors Association, said a “long stain” caused by the imbalance was responsible for mistrust in the system by African-Americans and other minorities.

“They have to see someone that looks like them,” she said. “When you walk into a courtroom and no one looks like you, do you think you are going to get a fair shake?”

Ms. Pearson said she tried to show African-American lawyers that they needed to be represented in all roles in the criminal justice system, including as prosecutors, a role traditionally stigmatized in the black community, to ensure fair outcomes.

Mr. Stevenson questions whether it is possible to diversify the ranks of prosecutors, given that most of them are elected and incumbents often serve long tenures. With 85 percent of incumbent prosecutors re-elected without opposition, according to a study, sitting prosecutors will either need to start making diversity a priority in vetting their successors or the system will need to be significantly altered to give state bar associations and other legal entities more of a say, he said.

The new study did not look at federal prosecutors, who are appointed, or other state or local appointees. The Women Donors Network planned to make a database of all elected prosecutors available on its website later on Tuesday. [MORE]

Black Women Overrepresented in Solitary Confinement

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A new report co-authored by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and The Arthur Liman Program at Yale Law School reveals significant overrepresentation of black women in solitary confinement across the United States. Among 40 jurisdictions providing data (38 states, the federal system, and the Virgin Islands), black women constituted 24% of the total female incarcerated population but comprised 41% of the female restricted housing population. The report documents smaller but substantial racial disparities in male isolation and estimates the disparities in each jurisdiction. Its authors define restricted housing as “the separation of prisoners from general population and in detention for 22 hours per day or more, for 15 or more continuous days, in single-cells or in double-cells.”

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Michigan Moves Closer to Passing Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Bill

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This week, the Michigan House approved a bill— the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act—to compensate people who’ve been exonerated of wrongful convictions. Over the past 25 years, 66 people in Michigan have been exonerated of crimes they did not commit. With no compensation law in place, these individuals had to forge ahead with their new lives without the financial means to do so. This legislation would offer Michigan exonerees much needed support, providing them with $50,000 per year of wrongful incarceration.

Last year, a local news station featured a story on Donya Davis, who was exonerated in 2014 in Michigan of a 2007 armed rape and robbery. Davis was asking state lawmakers to strongly consider passing a compensation law. Surviving life post-exoneration with no financial footing was nearly impossibly, he stressed.

At the time of the story, Davis was in dire straits financially. “I couldn’t even feed my children. I’m barely feeding myself. I couldn’t get a job based on their [the state’s] mistake,” Davis told FOX 17 West Michigan.

State Senator Steve Beida (D-Warren), sponsor of the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act, has been working for more than a decade to get this legislation passed. The next step and last step to making this bill law is getting Governor Rick Synder’s signature, which advocates are hopeful will happen.

“They’re not going to get rich off this,” said State Senator Steve Beida to WEMU, “but it will give them the chance to do something that’s meaningful and allow them to move forward.  We can’t bring them their time back.  We can’t bring back the time they’ve lost with their families, the ability to establish a career, everyday things we take for granted, we can at least when we release these people onto the street, we can give them the ability to have a decent life.” [MORE]

9/11 Suspect Rudy Giuliani and the Trump Campaign

Non-Aligned Media

The alt-right, a loose rightist coalition of opportunistic clickbait YouTube pundits and organized white nationalists, has been busy glorifying US President-Elect Donald Trump as a “God Emperor,” hailing the incumbent president as a potential “hero” and “saviour” of the declining white population in the United States.

Conveniently ignored and brushed aside by Trump’s sycophants in the alt-right is the troubling fact that many of the billionaire’s closest advisors and supporters are well-known DC establishment criminals who, during the Bush years, facilitated the traitorous cover-up of 9/11 and helped launch the murderous War on Terror, a completely fraudulent scheme to initiate a series of wars planned by Zionist imperialists in Israel decades earlier.

One of Trump’s loudest proponents on the 2016 campaign trail was none other than former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a key player in the 9/11 conspiracy and cover up.

Corbett’s report plays an amateur video showing an endless stream of dump trucks moving into Lower Manhattan to cart away thousands of tons of building debris from the collapsed World Trade Centre, including all of the steel beams which, if tested by experts, could have demonstrated conclusively that explosive charges were used to bring down the buildings.

That key evidence was not only not retained for analysis, but was instead quickly sold and shipped off to Chinese smelters for a profit and destroyed forever. Giuliani himself personally oversaw this process of rapidly removing and extinguishing the evidence which could have indicted the real perpetrators of the attacks and which would have severally undermined the neocons’ pre-planned war agenda.

Corbett also makes the case that Giuliani had foreknowledge that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were going to collapse before anyone could have predicted such a momentous event. In an interview Giuliani gave to the media on 9/11, he admits to receiving a warning by unnamed individuals that the buildings would collapse, a caution that no one else was privy to and which Giuliani failed to pass on to the first responders, many of whom died trying to rescue people trapped in the towers.

Also suspicious, in the late 1990s Giuliani as mayor commissioned the construction of a state-of-the-art command bunker in WTC Building 7, known as the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), containing blast and bullet proof walls, living quarters to accommodate 30 people and back up generators. Yet, amazingly, on 9/11 Giuliani and his team were nowhere near this emergency bunker built specifically for the purpose of housing state officials to coordinate a response to crises. Instead, Giuliani confided that he was in a different command centre located at Pier 92, oddly set-up shortly before 9/11 for the purpose of organizing a bio-terrorism drill involving FEMA as well as federal and state officials, scheduled for September 12. Was this “drill” just a smoke-and-mirrors cover story to provide Giuliani and his New York City administration an excuse to explain away their absence from the OEM in Building 7, which later collapsed in an apparent controlled demolition?

Probed about his semblant foreknowledge and complicity by activists, Giuliani smirked and denied ever receiving the warning or knowing the buildings would collapse. New York firefighters and 9/11 first responders so detest Giuliani for his scandalous actions on and after 9/11, that they have launched several public campaigns exposing his misdeeds. [MORE]