African American drivers in Milwaukee are seven times more likely to be pulled over by police than their white counterparts « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

African American drivers in Milwaukee are seven times more likely to be pulled over by police than their white counterparts « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

African American drivers in Milwaukee are seven times more likely to be pulled over by police than their white counterparts

by millerlf

National Coalition of Black American Men, Inc. 2727 N 67th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53210
414-763-4545/ 414-915-5297 Wendell J. Harris, President
wharris38@aol.com  
wendellharris-mke.com
RACIALLY BIASED POLICE STOPS
Whoever said that Milwaukee is the “Home of the Free?” Racial profiling in Milwaukee traffic stops proves the exact opposite – that African American drivers in Milwaukee are seven times more likely to be pulled over by police than their white counterparts, while Latinos are five times more likely to be stopped.
In a review of 45,703 MPD traffic stops in the first four months of 2011, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel found that

Newt Gingrich berates poor and black children

by millerlf

Larry Miller Published Dec. 18, 2011 http://onmilwaukee.com
In recent statements Newt Gingrich argued that “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of work and have nobody around them who works … So they have no habit of showing up on Monday.”
Alluding to “43% of black teenage unemployment,” he said, “What if they cleaned the bathrooms? What if they mopped the floors? (What) if they had money of their own and didn’t have to become a pimp, prostitute or drug dealer?”
Gingrich’s implication that poor and black children are lazy and undisciplined is the same racist and revisionist historical argument that was used in defense of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and job discrimination. He adds to