The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.