More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were Enslaved
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prisons are populated with black people that is a fact. they are guilty. the question should be why are black people committing more crimes, not "why are black people taking all the rooms in the house?"
i'm not sure probably something to do with the man holding them down or some shit. whatever. i just found out my brother-in-law's name is Jeramery
i'm not sure probably something to do with the man holding them down or some shit. whatever. i just found out my brother-in-law's name is Jeramery
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true dont blame whitey anymore...but lets not forget whitey was the one who got this ball rollin, and now is basically just watching it roll to hell and shaking his head.
thing is whitey does have a lot more resources to alleviate the situation than anyone else. when whiteys with power want to get shit done they can make it happen. i would start by considering our education system a state of emergency and treating it with the attention it desperately deserves. the reality of our black/white achievement gap is fuckin crime and a large reason we have the prison statistics we do. you look at what geoffrey canada has done in harlem its impressive to see how much progress can be made when white ppl agree to throw a shit load of money to a cause. kids in the harlem school zone who were bound to end up in jail are now on trajectories to upward mobility...its great...but it does cost A LOT of money.
so some responsibility does fall on whitey to make a decision on what he values. either acknowledge that black ppl are being raised in environments that are breeding grounds for a life of crime and just turn a blind eye...OR...acknowledge that whitey has the resources to do something about it. of course everyone needs to do their part, but the fact is that whitey can play a VERY helpful and necessary part in making this happen and so far has been choosing not to is something we cant ignore
and by whitey i dont necessarily mean white people....i mean powerful people....which is basically synonymous
true dont blame whitey anymore...but lets not forget whitey was the one who got this ball rollin, and now is basically just watching it roll to hell and shaking his head.
thing is whitey does have a lot more resources to alleviate the situation than anyone else. when whiteys with power want to get shit done they can make it happen. i would start by considering our education system a state of emergency and treating it with the attention it desperately deserves. the reality of our black/white achievement gap is fuckin crime and a large reason we have the prison statistics we do. you look at what geoffrey canada has done in harlem its impressive to see how much progress can be made when white ppl agree to throw a shit load of money to a cause. kids in the harlem school zone who were bound to end up in jail are now on trajectories to upward mobility...its great...but it does cost A LOT of money.
so some responsibility does fall on whitey to make a decision on what he values. either acknowledge that black ppl are being raised in environments that are breeding grounds for a life of crime and just turn a blind eye...OR...acknowledge that whitey has the resources to do something about it. of course everyone needs to do their part, but the fact is that whitey can play a VERY helpful and necessary part in making this happen and so far has been choosing not to is something we cant ignore
and by whitey i dont necessarily mean white people....i mean powerful people....which is basically synonymous
the prison system is big business in california,sometimes i think cali is basically a prison state........the prison system wants to stay in business and everything is connected and then guess who supplies all the guns that are sold on the streets.....the feds supply alotta guns that are on the street.
I'm all about self-responsibility. While whites may have gotten the ball rolling on all of this BS, it's up to us to keep it rolling. We have the opportunity RIGHT NOW to change things for the black community, but unfortunately, not many people are willing to take responsibility for themselves. I'm not sure how things are on the west coast, but I live in the south. Down here, you still have guys singing that same ol' slavery crap. People aren't even trying to do anything with their lives and using slavery and Jim Crow as the excuse.
Booker T. Washington said, "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." And SO fucking true. Think about it....
The rich, powerful white people that are out there living life to the fullest aren't worried about trying to hold some specific group of people down. If they were, they would never have gotten far. But those back of the wood rednecks who spent damn near their entire lives tormenting blacks....where are they? They're living even worst than the people they tried to oppress. It's like wrestling a dude and pinning him down. While you're holding him down, you can't focus on anything else except keeping him pinned down. You won't be able to do anything -- no food, no bathroom, no time with your kids & family, etc. -- all because you have to focus on keeping this guy pinned down. The same logic applies to "the white man holding us down." Which is why rednecks are where they are and the rich, powerful whites are where they are. For the record, slavery itself wasn't a race thing...it was a business thing. For some reason, the small town rednecks never quite understood that.
Back to my original point. Blacks are gonna have to quit looking for someone to blame and start taking full responsibility. We talk about being a "strong" group of people. But it's impossible to be strong when you're not willing to take full responsibility for yourself and your life. Black people give the "white man" too much credit and too much power. It's pretty weak to put your destiny in control of someone else. No one is telling these guys to commit crimes. But, in our community, people praise ignorance and stupidity. The black man who spends his life running the street and doing jail time is a hero. But we don't praise the black man whose running some Fortune 500 Company. He's labeled a sellout, an Uncle Tom, etc. If anything, the low-life black man should be labeled a sellout because he's doing nothing but setting a bad example for the younger generation. Everyone who praises the low-life black man is also setting a bad example for the young black generation. Basically telling them that as a black man, you're supposed to be a street thug. And by being a street thug, you'll get respect, money, cars, women, etc. It also doesn't help that when young black kids have dreams of being doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, politicians, etc., there's usually some idiot around them that instantly shoots their dream down...which leads them to think that the streets is the only way. Instead of telling our young people what they can't do, we need to start telling them what they can do.
Booker T. Washington said, "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." And SO fucking true. Think about it....
The rich, powerful white people that are out there living life to the fullest aren't worried about trying to hold some specific group of people down. If they were, they would never have gotten far. But those back of the wood rednecks who spent damn near their entire lives tormenting blacks....where are they? They're living even worst than the people they tried to oppress. It's like wrestling a dude and pinning him down. While you're holding him down, you can't focus on anything else except keeping him pinned down. You won't be able to do anything -- no food, no bathroom, no time with your kids & family, etc. -- all because you have to focus on keeping this guy pinned down. The same logic applies to "the white man holding us down." Which is why rednecks are where they are and the rich, powerful whites are where they are. For the record, slavery itself wasn't a race thing...it was a business thing. For some reason, the small town rednecks never quite understood that.
Back to my original point. Blacks are gonna have to quit looking for someone to blame and start taking full responsibility. We talk about being a "strong" group of people. But it's impossible to be strong when you're not willing to take full responsibility for yourself and your life. Black people give the "white man" too much credit and too much power. It's pretty weak to put your destiny in control of someone else. No one is telling these guys to commit crimes. But, in our community, people praise ignorance and stupidity. The black man who spends his life running the street and doing jail time is a hero. But we don't praise the black man whose running some Fortune 500 Company. He's labeled a sellout, an Uncle Tom, etc. If anything, the low-life black man should be labeled a sellout because he's doing nothing but setting a bad example for the younger generation. Everyone who praises the low-life black man is also setting a bad example for the young black generation. Basically telling them that as a black man, you're supposed to be a street thug. And by being a street thug, you'll get respect, money, cars, women, etc. It also doesn't help that when young black kids have dreams of being doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, politicians, etc., there's usually some idiot around them that instantly shoots their dream down...which leads them to think that the streets is the only way. Instead of telling our young people what they can't do, we need to start telling them what they can do.
