The Patriot Post® · Equality in Discipline

Walter E. Williams: “[B]lacks are 13 percent of the population but over 50 percent of homicide victims and about 46 percent of convicted murderers. Seeing as the Obama administration is concerned about punishment disproportionality, should black convicts be released so that only 13 percent of incarcerated murderers are black? Or should the Department of Justice order the conviction of whites, whether they’re guilty or not, so that the number of people convicted of murder by race is equal to their number in the general population? You say, ‘Williams, that not only is a stupid suggestion but violates all concepts of justice!’ You’re absolutely right, but isn’t it just as stupid and unjust for the Obama administration to seek punishment equality in schools?”