This is in response to Allen West's video: link

This is what I was talking about in the other pick.

"African Americans comprise more than 37% of people arrested for drug use, 59% of those convicted for drug use, and 74% of those sentenced to prison for drug use, but only 15% of American drug users. What does that mean, Cinders? you ask. It means that even though 15 out of 100 drug-using Americans in the US are black, blacks still make up the vast majority of people arrested for drug use - 74 out of every hundred people sentenced to prison for it, in fact. How does that make sense to you?" [link]

Why only pictures of black people?
Racism can be subject to any race, black, white or Asian...

If there were only pictures of black people in this pick, I might understand the question.

The "yes" picture is of the person publicly promoting the idea that "institutionalized racism is gone in the United States", Lt. Col. Allen West. He is, therefore, the "poster boy" of the concept.

I apologize if the picture of inmates in prison offended you; it's true that I could have included a picture of, say, the DMV, city hall, the registrar of voters, or maybe the treasury building to represent institutionalized racism. I was afraid that such pictures might be too subtle.

i wasn't offended. just curious, really.

It has nothing to do with race at all; It has to do with crimes.

Are you being serious right now? I just gave you a statistic on that.

BTW - there is a difference in charges between owning an ounce of crack cocaine and an ounce of powder cocaine. One is five years in prison, the other is (off the top of my head I'm going to say) a year, if not less. Do you know what the only difference is between crack and powder? I'll tell you - the clientele. CPAs do powder. Teens in poverty do crack.

Crimes are crimes, no matter who did it,Sure they are some corrupted cops, but times have changed.

So, in discussing this, are you all limiting your definition of institutions to cops, or even the justice system?

Also keep in mind that "institution" doesn't just mean employees and human resources, it means the actual structures themselves, the actual laws and rules, as well as the methods in which they are implemented.

Once again: One ounce possession crack cocaine = 5 years in prison.
One ounce possession powder cocaine = 1 year in prison. One ounce of crack = potency as one ounce of powder. So explain to me how that law makes any sense.

Nearly all kinds of racism are not gone yet...even placing the word 'yet' at the end of that statement is debatable. -.-