One stereotypical thought people assume of African Americans are that they are violent. With being black in America you are target because of your skin color and the assumption people have. People have an image set in their mind that people of color are trouble …show more content…
That is not true. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the percentage of black of inmates is 37.8 compare to the percentage of White which is 58.9. The rate of black imprisonment has been declining in both men and women. The women have tumbled forty-seven percent and twenty-two for the men. I have met some amazing people who are Africa America in their families nobody has been incarcerated. A family of seven like mine, my best friend Ka’shuntiana and her family have lived in America all their lives. Not one person has been incarcerated. My boyfriend who is African America has not been incarcerated nor his family, so the predication of one out of nine black people have imprisoned is not true. It is unfair that people assume that an African American family at least one person has or is been in