Comments on: Discrimination ‘08: Ex-Offender Disenfranchisement http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/11/03/discrimination-08-ex-offender-disenfranchisement/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:50:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ron triplett http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/11/03/discrimination-08-ex-offender-disenfranchisement/comment-page-1/#comment-13822 ron triplett Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:55:11 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/?p=8286#comment-13822 For me, as an ex-offender, the issue runs directly into the nations safety from crime. voting rights are the tip of the ice berg. Many ex felons are FORCED into continued criminal behavior because they can't get real jobs. Discrimination is the real issue and one day, with the millions of ex-felon being created daily, we will have our own civil rights movement. The scary part about that is, will it be peaceful. Society creates these angry, un employable, lower class citizens by failing to accept that they are people to and NEED to be re-intigrated, without stigma for their past failures. Life is no longer what we make it. youthful indiscretions and personal failure are worn on our shirts like the star of david was in 1942. For me, as an ex-offender, the issue runs directly into the nations safety from crime. voting rights are the tip of the ice berg. Many ex felons are FORCED into continued criminal behavior because they can’t get real jobs. Discrimination is the real issue and one day, with the millions of ex-felon being created daily, we will have our own civil rights movement.

The scary part about that is, will it be peaceful. Society creates these angry, un employable, lower class citizens by failing to accept that they are people to and NEED to be re-intigrated, without stigma for their past failures.

Life is no longer what we make it. youthful indiscretions and personal failure are worn on our shirts like the star of david was in 1942.

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