the citizen-viewer

According to a joint report by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch: “In the 13 states that corporally punished more than 1,000 students per year, African-American girls were twice as likely to be beaten as their white counterparts.”

 Banned        Less than 1,000 students per year    
 More than 1,000 students per year

From the report: “I’ve heard this said at my school and at other schools: ‘This child should get less whips, it’ll leave marks.’ Students that are dark-skinned, it takes more to let their skin be bruised. Even with all black students, there is an imbalance: darker-skinned students get worse punishment.”

Next, waterboarding.

Here’s an instructive comparison, to a map the citizen-viewer posted almost four years ago:

Big props to Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware!