Two Americas

Although John Edwards has been disgraced by his own unethical and potentially illegal activities, he got one thing absolutely right...there are, in fact, two Americas. There's no other way to explain this story.

Maybe you caught the news story over the weekend. An overgrown brat from suburban Barrington Hills, Ryan LeVin, 36, who had run over and killed two men while drag racing his Porsche in South Florida, was sentenced by Judge McCarthy to a mere two years of house arrest — in one of his wealthy parents’ luxury oceanfront condos — after agreeing to write big checks to the victims’ widows.

LeVin could have been sentenced to up to 45 years in prison for killing the two British businessmen and fleeing the police, and in fact nobody in Broward County can recall another time when a person found guilty of such a crime did not serve time in prison.

But LeVin was grounded.

Oh, and in case you had any doubts, LeVin, in addition to coming from a wealthy Chicago family that can afford to outfit him in $120,000 Porsches and a luxury oceanfront condo in which to serve his "sentence," is clearly "melanin-challenged."



Truth is, today I'm directing my anger at LeVin when in reality its about all of those other young, poor, non-melanin-challenged men (and women) who are languishing in prison for crimes much less serious than the one committed by this guy.

Our justice system, rather than being balanced, seems to swing from one extreme to the other depending on things that indicate its certainly not blind.