Imagine being enslaved for four hundred years, imagine gaining freedom, then imagine that freedom being stripped from you by our legal system.
Ladies and Gentlemen I am here to talk about, inform, and propose what we shall do as a community to eliminate the criminal injustice we witness inside of our prison system everyday.
The day slavery was terminated in 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and slavery ended, white men yet again found another systematic way to extort free labor out of African American men. The Thirteenth Amendment justified this which states, “Neither nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime.” The Thirteenth Amendment also allowed the south to rebuild its economy through cruel and savage prison labor. In 1982, former President Ronald Reagan thrashed the black community again with an additional hurdle to overcome by dramatically increasing sentencing for minor drug offenses. In the eighties black …show more content…
Mass incarceration has indeed torn fathers from their children, torn communities apart, solidified up stereotypes, and ruined the structure of the strong black community. Mass incarceration has created more racial injustice, and unfair sentencing between caucasians and african americans. So what shall we do as a community to decrease and eventually eliminate mass incarceration among black men all together? We must first, start with our young people by creating and funding extra-curricular activities that are positive, useful, and empowering. Next, we must eliminate drugs in our immediate communities by raising money to fund rehabilitation clinics and treatment centers. We must contact our local congressmen, attorney, and lawyers to urge them to review cases that have been racially motivated. Last, we must show our young and old, women and men dreams can become reality through being active and that jail or death by the hands of another is not their ultimate
Ladies and Gentlemen I am here to talk about, inform, and propose what we shall do as a community to eliminate the criminal injustice we witness inside of our prison system everyday.
The day slavery was terminated in 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted and slavery ended, white men yet again found another systematic way to extort free labor out of African American men. The Thirteenth Amendment justified this which states, “Neither nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime.” The Thirteenth Amendment also allowed the south to rebuild its economy through cruel and savage prison labor. In 1982, former President Ronald Reagan thrashed the black community again with an additional hurdle to overcome by dramatically increasing sentencing for minor drug offenses. In the eighties black …show more content…
Mass incarceration has indeed torn fathers from their children, torn communities apart, solidified up stereotypes, and ruined the structure of the strong black community. Mass incarceration has created more racial injustice, and unfair sentencing between caucasians and african americans. So what shall we do as a community to decrease and eventually eliminate mass incarceration among black men all together? We must first, start with our young people by creating and funding extra-curricular activities that are positive, useful, and empowering. Next, we must eliminate drugs in our immediate communities by raising money to fund rehabilitation clinics and treatment centers. We must contact our local congressmen, attorney, and lawyers to urge them to review cases that have been racially motivated. Last, we must show our young and old, women and men dreams can become reality through being active and that jail or death by the hands of another is not their ultimate