By Selwyn Duke

In the race into race madness, California may lead the pack. A case in point is the state’s Proposition 47, which seeks to address black Americans’ “overrepresentation” (a propaganda term) in the court system and jails.

Instituted in 2014, the proposition's effect is now apparent. As Liberty Nation’s Tess Lynne reported Friday, referencing a study on San Francisco, “Black Americans only account for 6% of the city’s population, yet prior to Prop. 47, they represented 43% of those jailed. After the measure’s passage, that number dropped to 38%.”

Lynne then quoted the San Francisco Chronicle: “The study also found that black defendants had been given sentences averaging 3.4 months longer than white defendants — a disparity caused by factors that include pretrial detention and criminal history, which disproportionately affect African Americans. However, since Prop. 47, that discrepancy in sentence lengths has dropped by half, according to the report.”

How was this accomplished? Lynne explains, “Prop. 47 reduced some nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors and allowed for those previously convicted of said felonies to be resentenced. How does this relate to racial discrepancies, you might ask? It was designed to target a specific race.”

In other words, instead of having punishment fit the crime — an imperative of justice — Golden State punishment now fits a racial agenda.

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