And the problem is poverty driven, not race driven.
But go ahead and throw out your red herring.
Obama said something similar regardng the number of blacks in prison compared to the make-up of black people in the Iowa population just a couple of weeks ago. He said it was because a dispropotionate number of the poor are also black. They are saying the same thing.
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/10/05/news/metro/63196c758dd5a4a48625736b004de430.txt<snip>
After an audience member asked a question about the high African-American incarceration rate, a recent topic of debate in Waterloo, Obama said his first action would be to expand early childhood education, which can help alleviate poverty and crime.
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