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13173914, Pretty sure the comment you replied to is about Busch specifically
Posted by J305, Sun Jul-16-17 07:11 PM
>There are more white Americans in prison or jail than there
>are people in prison or jail in the entire continent of
>Africa.

But if you want to debate whether white privilege exists and use prison stats to do so, you need to take into account that the US has the highest inmate population in the world, in both absolute (# of inmates) and relative (prison population rate) terms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm

And then look at the prison population rate when split by race:
http://www.businessinsider.com/study-finds-huge-racial-disparity-in-americas-prisons-2016-6