This is a stirring and eye-opening article. How can we change this situation? The simple answer is for black men to stay out of jail. The real answer is much deeper and nuanced than that. The answer will need to discuss the joblessness, lack of educational and economic opportunities, the rampant discrimination, and the lack of self-love in our community among some black men and black women.
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Wow, that was deep, I didn’t even get a chance to read it all but what I did read was very enlightening. It makes me sad.
I always think about African Americans and marriage and when I do think of that the first thing I think about is Willie Lynch. I believe that is THE reason for the situations African Americans face and lack of marriage is one of them.
Thanks for having your eyes open. It is a rare trait!
Thank you for visiting and the compliment. It is greatly appreciated. It was a very good article. Have you ever read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow? That will really shock you. It is a same that the ghost of Willie Lynch is still with us. I have other posts about that letter on the site also.
Actually and unfortunately the idea that 1 in 3 black men being in prison at some point in their lives is built on the principle of recidivism which states that 72% of incarcerated Black men will make a second appearance. Meaning, if you take the given number of Black men in prison and multiply it by .72 this number will be equal to one third of the Black male population over a set of years equal to the average Black male lifetime. Because this idea is built on the notion that inmates will return to prison, this is simply a recycling of the SAME Black men through the prison system….which doesn’t provide me any comfort, but is certainly a far cry from 1 in 3 Black men being incarcerated.
I agree with you. I believe any attack against black men or black women is an attack against the collective whole.