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(Video In.)Sen. Booker: ‘More African-Americans Under Criminal Supervision Than All Of the Slaves In 1850′
Sen. Booker: ‘More African-Americans Under Criminal Supervision Than All Of the Slaves In 1850′
(Susan Jones) “Right now, we have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all of the slaves in 1850,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
Booker was complaining about what he called “felony disenfranchisement.”
“[W]hat we’ve also seen in this country since the 1970s is a great restriction of voting rights in our country. What I mean specifically by that is in 1976, about 1.7 million Americans were denied their voting rights because of previous convictions. They had felony disenfranchisement.
“Well, since the 1970s, we had this explosion of this drug war, incredible explosion of mass incarceration in this country, disproportionately affecting poor people and minorities. And now we’ve come to a point in America in 2010, we had 5.85 million Americans who have lost their voting rights because of previous convictions.
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“They paid their debt to society, many of them non-violent criminals. If that was a state, it would be the 20th biggest state in our nation.”
Booker also said there’s “no difference” between blacks and whites when it comes to using illegal drugs in this country:
“In fact, there’s no difference in dealing drugs,” Booker said. “Some studies show that young whites have more of a — a chance of being drug dealers, but yet we have an incarceration rate for drugs — for drug use and for drug selling — that is disproportionately seen in — in communities of color.
“And the result of that has created these awful realities in America, where right now, we have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all of the slaves in 1850, where we have a nation that has states like mine (New Jersey), that has 14, 15-percent African-Americans, but the prison population is over 60 percent black.
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