Today there is a misconception about mass incarceration being related to slavery, because of the systematic conception that it is a way to keep individuals deemed as a criminal away from the rest of society. Although, mass incarceration populates all misfits, there seems to be a severe injustice in the amount of African-Americans that are in our prison system. African-Americans make up 13 percent of the overall population; meanwhile, they account for 40 percent of the prison system (Khalek, 2011). For many years blacks have been treated as properties as they were captured and sold into slavery. Losing their freedom and dignity in a nation where they were only perceived as property. As time progressed, it was apparent to the North that the systematic method of slavery was no longer acceptable and the slaves were no longer property to be held. From the beginning, white people always needed to turn to black people W.E.B DuBois states, “The slave went free;
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Societal blind eye need to turn to the troubling issue affecting a race of people. Despite having a few rich black celebrities, the mass is still poor in run down communities. These community’s are being destroyed by the wealthy privileged whites who can buy their way out of their problem, while they continue to push drugs in these low-income community. Aiming to deal with life, many black males find themselves hooked on drugs or dealing drugs in their community to maintain an income. With the constant fear towards “crime,” an indirect reference to identify black people, people have become comfortable with mass incarceration. They are conditioned to believe by keeping these animals caged. The construction of mass incarceration is solely possible through racism. Social acceptance amongst whites has led us to be blinded by racism, because we have been manipulated by our kind white neighbors and open school doors to blacks to be fooled we are
Societal blind eye need to turn to the troubling issue affecting a race of people. Despite having a few rich black celebrities, the mass is still poor in run down communities. These community’s are being destroyed by the wealthy privileged whites who can buy their way out of their problem, while they continue to push drugs in these low-income community. Aiming to deal with life, many black males find themselves hooked on drugs or dealing drugs in their community to maintain an income. With the constant fear towards “crime,” an indirect reference to identify black people, people have become comfortable with mass incarceration. They are conditioned to believe by keeping these animals caged. The construction of mass incarceration is solely possible through racism. Social acceptance amongst whites has led us to be blinded by racism, because we have been manipulated by our kind white neighbors and open school doors to blacks to be fooled we are