Ok yes what I said was incorrect actually. But racial disparities do exist....it's just a bit more complicated - the race of the victim plays a bigger part in this than anything.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-race

I actually meant to type that - while I'm skeptical of conclusions regarding the race of the accused and levels of injustice - I agree there's more evidence that the race of the victim winds up being a factor.

Here is where (and I realize I'm pushing this back to our country's leader) Barack Obama could assume a leadership role in accountability - and saying what he can to advise people how to stay out of trouble in the first place.

In 2008, even though much of his campaign was utter crap, he gave one particularly good speech - the famous Father's Day speech when he ripped into deadbeat dads and specifically called out men of his own race. I gave him credit for showing some REAL moral courage. (This was the famous speech where Obama took a shot at Jesse Jackson, which lead to Jackson saying he wanted to cut off a certain part of Obama's body).

Unfortunately, his speech shortly after the Treyvon Martin verdict 2 months ago was the opposite - the biggest load of B.S. we've heard from him since re-election. To equate the locking of car doors with racial injustice was just pathetic. Here was Barack Obama's chance to set the record straight about the responsibility that ALL Americans face...the responsibility that comes with owning a gun (which Zimmerman didn't understand), the responsibility to avoid physical confrontation and let cooler heads prevail (a beyond-harsh lesson that led to a senseless, horrible, and totally preventable tragedy), and the responsibility of parents to make it their #1 priority when their kid is really headed down the wrong path of physical altercations. But Obama royally screwed it up. He gave certain groups a reason to continue to feel "put down", and this psychological reward system just makes me want to engage in reverse peristalsis.

Would it have been tasteless, callous, cold, and inhumane for him to call out everyone's behavior and actions, and let Martin's death serve as a cautionary tale? You bet. He would have caught fire from many. But it would have been the RIGHT thing to do. There's a reason people wind up on death row - the choices they make. When I heard the royally lame excuse of the father of one of the three 15 year olds who beat the hell out of the younger kid on the school bus, it tells you all you need to know about how that unfolded and the complete lack of parenting. This country is in a crisis mode...for years, people in places like Europe criticized the U.S. for all the deaths and violence. I used to argue back but I don't anymore. We have become a nation that increasingly doesn't use our brains.

Jesus, someone toss out a SQL Server question, I'm getting myself all worked up, and it's 4 AM!