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From : DrJHaney
Added: Mar 6, 2009
Comments With Dr. James Haney Presents*African American Children and Incarceration, with RJohnson and Rev. KWalker, two activists who talks about the large number of African American Children incarcerated in the American criminal justice system and what can be done to reverse this trend, Part 3 This video has Enhanced Text (et)* In the area of violent deaths by criminal activities, drugs remain the chief culprit. Statistics show drug related homicides to be the leading cause of death among young black men between 15 and 24. In Tennessee in 1989, the homicide rate for minorities was nearly five times higher than for whites. This will be the major issues in the Presidential campaign of 1992. In a Houston, Texas speech Democratic candidate Bill Clinton challenged President George Bush to make crime an issue during the campaign as he did in 1988. At that time President Bush used the name of Willie Horton, a murderer who committed a rape and stabbing while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison, as a symbol of crime running rampant under then-Govemor Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate. Clinton believes that President Bush used the issue of crime to divide America in 1988. "I want to use it to unite America. I want to be tough on crime and good for civil rights. You can't have civil justice without order and safety," he said
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