Former King of Pangea schrieb:
> Never mind the fact that there was no Soviet economy, only the black market.

Hey but post-Stalin Soviet gulag was small and white, as compared to US
black gulag!
http://www.prisonsucks.com/
> On June 30, 2004, there were 2,131,180 people in U.S. prisons and jails.
> That's a rise of 2.3% during the 12 previous months. Federal prisons are
> growing almost 5 times faster than state prison populations.
> As of June 30, 2004, the U.S. incarceration rate was 726 per 100,000
> residents. But when you break down the statistics you see that incarceration
> is not an equal opportunity punishment.
> U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2004:
>    * Whites: 393 per 100,000
>    * Latinos: 957 per 100,000
>    * Blacks: 2,531 per 100,000
> Gender is an important "filter" on the who goes to prison or jail, June 30,
> 2004:
>    * Females: 123 per 100,000
>    * Males: 1,348 per 100,000
> Look at just the males by race, and the incarceration rates become even more
> frightening, June 30, 2004:
>    * White males: 717 per 100,000
>    * Latino males: 1,717 per 100,000
>    * Black males: 4,919 per 100,000
> If you look at males aged 25-29 and by race, you can see what is going on
> even clearer, June 30, 2004:
>    * For White males ages 25-29: 1,666 per 100,000.
>    * For Latino males ages 25-29: 3,606 per 100,000.
>    * For Black males ages 25-29: 12,603 per 100,000. (That's 12.6% of Black
> men in their late 20s.)
> Or you can make some international comparisons:
> South Africa under Apartheid was internationally condemned as a racist
> society.
>    * South Africa under apartheid (1993), Black males: 851 per 100,000
>    * U.S. under George Bush (2004), Black males: 4,919 per 100,000
> What does it mean that the leader of the "free world" locks up its Black
> males at a rate 5.8 times higher than the most openly racist country in the
> world?