Study: Black Male Incarcerations Jumped 500% from 1986 to 2004.

[Scustin Bieburr]

Michelle Alexander: More Black Men Are In Prison Today Than Were Enslaved In 1850

Michelle Alexander stays going in on this issue

I truly do fear for the future of Black America. Everything is pointing in the wrong direction. I think about this stuff all the time and I don't even know where to begin to solve these problems. I have ideas that range from simple education reform to massive, societal changes like consolidating our population to a single state or group of states in close proximity....but it all seems so impossible.

We lost a long time ago, and the past century has just been everyone else twisting the knife. We need a fukking "historical mulligan" at this point.

Some individuals will continue to eat as always, but as a group, we're fukked....

I don't necessarily agree. I mean some progress is being made in respect to incarceration and black on black crime. Guns are being taken off the streets and being harder to obtain.

The big problem America has is greed. These private prisons make a lot of money, and they employ people. These prisons should focus more on rehabilitation. There should be laws in place that make it so that you're still treated fairly after you've left prison. People need to remember that sometimes innocent people go to prison, and rehabilitation is more useful than just straight up punishment.

I think if incarceration rates were down then the black population would grow substantially and so would the black middle class. It blows my mind that there are people who don't want to see how black people having money, jobs, and starting new businesses and thus employing more people is good for the country. There is a fear of the blackman in America that needs to be purged. I think deep down a lot of white people assume that once black people get power we will be as evil, oppressive, and unspeakably vicious and cruel to them as they were to us.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

I hope this is not due to racism.

 

[Thebadguy]

War on Drugs is the main cause of this mess. And no one seems to really give a fukk. I mean, we all care, but year by year nothing changes

People don't even question the war on drugs anymore because that's all most people have known.

not to mention we've now made hundreds of thousands of jobs based around the war on drugs. The machine is in motion and it's going to be hard to stop it.

Prisons are the major employers in a lot of towns across the country. If they were to close, the unemployment rate would go up. Add to that all of the inmates who will be looking for jobs.

 

[The Message]

Michelle Alexander: More Black Men Are In Prison Today Than Were Enslaved In 1850

I love that woman. God bless her. Brehs need to get up on her book, The New Jim Crow. shyt opened my eyes to a lot.

 

[Agent Mulder]

Need to read this book. For those of you who have, is Wiki right about this?

from Wiki;

"Scholars in the field of Black Studies have criticized The New Jim Crow for retaining a white liberal perspective, arguing that it isolates the "War on Drugs" as a problem without reflecting the deeper systems of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and racism. Some consider the book to be counter-revolutionary.

 

[theworldismine13]

Need to read this book. For those of you who have, is Wiki right about this?

from Wiki;

"Scholars in the field of Black Studies have criticized The New Jim Crow for retaining a white liberal perspective, arguing that it isolates the "War on Drugs" as a problem without reflecting the deeper systems of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and racism. Some consider the book to be counter-revolutionary.

nah, it's not true, being liberal and being pro black are the same thing, you can trust white liberals and progressives completely, they are on your side

 

[OG Talk]

Cool thread...

But what specific issues do the Black community have that needs to be addressed?

 

[The Message]

Need to read this book. For those of you who have, is Wiki right about this?

from Wiki;

"Scholars in the field of Black Studies have criticized The New Jim Crow for retaining a white liberal perspective, arguing that it isolates the "War on Drugs" as a problem without reflecting the deeper systems of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and racism. Some consider the book to be counter-revolutionary.

No, it's not true fam. The first chapter alone starts with the birth of slavery in the US and details every law, policy, institution, etc which disinfranchised blacks and describes the specific steps which would eventually allow and "justify" the war on drugs. She was thorough with it.

 

[theworldismine13]

No, it's not true fam. The first chapter alone starts with the birth of slavery in the US and details every law, policy, institution, etc which disinfranchised blacks and describes the specific steps which would eventually allow and "justify" the war on drugs. She was thorough with it.

yeah exactly, and just like slavery black people wont be free until a great white man comes and frees us

 

[Agent Mulder]

No, it's not true fam. The first chapter alone starts with the birth of slavery in the US and details every law, policy, institution, etc which disinfranchised blacks and describes the specific steps which would eventually allow and "justify" the war on drugs. She was thorough with it.

As easy, accessible and resourceful wikipedia is, i wish there was something a bit more official on the internet.

 

[kt773]

Bu bu but we have a Black President now...he will handle it....

thanks for being the first to troll some lame shyt

 

[SafeForWork]

I truly do fear for the future of Black America. Everything is pointing in the wrong direction. I think about this stuff all the time and I don't even know where to begin to solve these problems. I have ideas that range from simple education reform to massive, societal changes like consolidating our population to a single state or group of states in close proximity....but it all seems so impossible.

We lost a long time ago, and the past century has just been everyone else twisting the knife. We need a fukking "historical mulligan" at this point.

Some individuals will continue to eat as always, but as a group, we're fukked....

Stop thinking as a group then you idiot. Wanna be ina group?? A tribe? Abooga booga! Get the fukk back to Africa.

 

[Agent Mulder]

Stop thinking as a group then you idiot. Wanna be ina group?? A tribe? Abooga booga! Get the fukk back to Africa.

 

[Schmoove]

I truly do fear for the future of Black America. Everything is pointing in the wrong direction. I think about this stuff all the time and I don't even know where to begin to solve these problems. I have ideas that range from simple education reform to massive, societal changes like consolidating our population to a single state or group of states in close proximity....but it all seems so impossible.

We lost a long time ago, and the past century has just been everyone else twisting the knife. We need a fukking "historical mulligan" at this point.

Some individuals will continue to eat as always, but as a group, we're fukked....

And the one's who eat don't care to help solve the problems that inflict those who aren't eating.

 

[thekingsmen]

thanks for being the first to troll some lame shyt

Is it lame? The very fact Coli cats were clogging the HL up was for their black president to win the election but couldn't tell anyone that he has no interest in black people issues or poor people issues at all.