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December 21, 2005

California to end racial segregation by 2008

Apparently, the Supreme Court was not amused by a Correctional Officer's copy of Offspring lyrics submitted as a justification.

From the AP:

California had argued that the policy was necessary because of the threat of violence from prison gangs divided along racial lines.

The new reception center policy, which takes effect in March, will consider an inmate's age, reason for incarceration and other criteria to determine an appropriate cellmate.

The department will then address in phases the issue among the general inmate population, with full desegregation scheduled for March 2008, said Thornton.

"California is now going to have a prison system that is like that of the other states and the federal government," said attorney Bert Deixler, who represented Johnson in the lawsuit that challenged the state's policy. "Integration means people won't be coming off buses (into prisons) and have the color of their skin determine their cellmate."

Clearly, the question of the chicken and the egg (or group psychology and basic behavioral science for that matter) was not something they spent a lot of time on at state Correctional Officer training school:

"You mean labeling all the prisoners by race and teaching them to identify each other by race instead of individually, does not improve relations between the Whites, the Niggers, and the Spics? Who would have thunk it?"

From the documentary, Tupac Resurrection:

I came to jail. I'm telling you, it's dirty.
It's filthy. It's like you're an animal.

At first, me and the guards
had problems.

I got smacked and treated bad.

They did whatever they could to break
me because I used to talk a lot of shit.

As soon as I got there, they went,
"There he goes, the rich nigger."

I was like, "Oh, shit, he said nigger!"
Everybody's looking at me like, "So?"

And I was like, "My God, this is where
I'm gonna be staying?"

He just said "nigger"!

You've got "niggas"
in one of your records.

Niggas. He's talking about niggers.

Niggers was the ones on the rope,
hanging off the thing.

Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,
hanging out at clubs.

Posted by Mike at December 21, 2005 02:56 AM

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