Aimee Michael (pictured left), for the most part, seems to be a lot like the rest of us. She's a 24-year-old black female college graduate with two parents who love her. Her parents have been married for 28 years, and her mother is a 52-year-old former school teacher. On Easter Sunday in 2009, though, Aimee found herself facing up to 50 years in prison. While she didn't get the entire 50 years, she did get 36 of them.
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The time to feel sorry for black people is before, not after they run afoul of the law. This younger generation has forfieted their futures, because the previous generations of strident, militant blacks did all of the fighting and dying for them. They weren't interested in continuing the struggle, because as far as they were concerned, the fight for civil rights was over, and they had no skin in the game anyway. Now they are going to pay a heavy price, when they allpy for college, a loan, or show up in court, and the pent up backlash against civil rights lashes out at them.
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