the most vicious thing I ever hope to say about Catholics

I just read “Catholics refuse abortions with anguish”. And I knew all of it. And it’s still pissed me off so much that I have to say this: Someone should rape the Pope and implant a watermelon in his stomach. Then he might get a clue.
I love liberation theology and Catholics who take “thou shalt [...]

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a quick test for class bias in racial statistics

Too often, US statistics focus on race and ignore class—it’s a convenient way to keep people from thinking about economic injustice. Recently I realized that math is my friend: there’s a quick way to see whether poverty might be the real factor in a statistic.
According to the US Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance [...]

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Race and class in prison, beyond death row

After looking at Race and class in the death penalty and finding no evidence of racial bias there, I thought I would look at the rest of the prison system.
As noted in the previous post, Americans who live under the poverty line are 50% white, 25% black, 22% hispanic/latino, and 3% Asian. If prison reflected [...]

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Race and class in the death penalty

A couple of years ago, I tried to figure out whether race was a significant factor in the death penalty. If you’re one of those Americans who believe we live in a classless society, race is clearly an enormous factor: we’re 80% white, 13% black, 1% American Indian, 4% Asian, and 14% Hispanic/Latino. (Annoyingly, the [...]

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race, class, and the death penalty

From Capital punishment in the United States:
Approximately 58 percent of the defendants executed were white; 34 percent were black; 6 percent were Hispanic; and 2 percent were from other races.
Unfortunately, they don’t give a breakdown by wealth. Death Penalty Information Center has useful information, but their focus is also on race, not class. So I [...]

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