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RE: REPOST: Stop sending our jobs over seas... OKAY WE'LL STOP... How about the Prison Industrial Complex? [Original Post: August 18th, 2016]
Yes, the numbers are accurate yet she isn't the only one that has stated it. I've heard that a number of times.
I wonder what the root cause of this may be. I guess one reason may be that the detention facilities are run by private companies, which lobbies a lot to have more people put in jail.
Another reason may be that this is just a plain racist system. I heard somewhere that a black male in America has was it 17 times greater chance of being incarcerated during his lifetime than a white male. Many of these are incarceration based on laws specifically designed to target the black community.
This is likely. They also commit more crimes. I believe a lot of that is cultural. They apparently took some Irish culture and took it as their own. Think about who they idolize. They tend to consider rappers with criminal records as having street cred. I would expect such idolization to result in more crimes and thus incarceration. I do not buy into the racism narrative. I personally believe it is total bullshit and being intentionally stirred up and fueled by the mainstream media.
Furthermore, there are many other statistics you can look at that also impact black males, and in some cases females that seem to back the idea that it is perhaps a cultural issue rather than racist.
Now I am not saying there are no racist. There are. I don't believe they are as big as the news is pushing. I actually believe BLM has inflamed racism with the help of media rather than helped with it.
Based on what I've learned, the laws have targeted the black community, and thus making more of them criminal by law. It's not that they actually behave worse than the white community, it's just that they're fall victim of these underlying racist laws.
Show me a law. I've heard this, yet I haven't found any such laws. I believe this is crap, and until I see actual laws that target blacks I won't believe it.
This is partially why I started thinking a lot of it may actually be cultural. If you admire and elevate the thug life then it should be apparent that this should lead to more conflicts with the law. Note: I am not saying black culture. I don't believe in a RACIAL culture. Cultures can be followed by any race. In fact, the culture I am referring to was in the Irish community before it became popular in many black communities. There are also many white people and other minorities that participate in the cultures that admire and elevate those who are essentially thugs.
I haven't got any laws to refer to, and don't know enough about this topic to make up my own opinion, but I found the information I heard interesting, and opened up a new perspective to me. Not to mistake this for being facts (again, I have very limited knowledge on this), but a perspective that tell me that there may be structural reasons for the amount of black men being incarcerated in the US.
Maybe it's something else, like a cultural such as that you've touched upon. I don't know. I'm gonna step out on a limb here, trying to recall what I saw in some documentary, but here it goes: If I'm not way off, the documentary claimed that the use of crack cocaine was more widespread in the black community than in the white. The white did other drugs, but it was the war on crack cocaine that was chosen by the government. This was during Regan. The war on drugs, or more precise, the was on drugs used primearily in the black community, led to more black men in prisons. So the war on drugs was actually a continuation of black oppression.
I my memory was not way off, I think that what you wrote is quite the same as the claims put forward in that documentary.