Byline: TOM TEEPEN
There's a book us white folks need to read but black folks can skip. Black folks already know why there's such a disproportion of their young men in prison. And, no, it's not because African-Americans are natural-born crooks; that's talk-radio tripe. It's in good part because the relentless inequities of the criminal justice system are geared, however unintentionally, to produce that disproportion.
The book is ``No Equal Justice.'' It is by David Cole. He brings a disturbing message.
For every black man who is graduated from college, 100 are arrested. The current, unprecedented disproportions are devastating black family …
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