The National Black United Front is sponsoring the deliverable from a roundtable think tank at the Federal Correctional Institution in Memphis Tennessee.
John Roberts confirmation hearing places the issue of the racialization of justice in America in the context of his philosophical and ideological predispositions relevant to the administration of justice pursuant to interpretation of laws. The 14th Amendment's guaranty of equal protection under the law as so eloquently opined in Brown v. Board of Education is again ripe for review as a frame of reference when addressing racial disparity in the criminal justice system. Perhaps not deliberate, the effect is the same: institutionalized racism to the extent that Blacks and Hispanics are prosecuted more and recieve more severe sentences upon conviction for the same crime as, say, a non Black or non Hispanic. This fact is codified, documented, and bona fide as a reliable statistic with far-reaching implications.
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