When are we going to end this modern day version of slavery?..How Prisoners Make Us Look Good - NYTimes.com

Hasn't the black man suffered enough? Should we not create lasting,effective programs that allow enough meaningful upward social mobility that would put an end to this travesty?We are creating a self sustaining industry fueled by the demise of the young black male.What we need to do is call this what it is , a National Disaster. We then must put the type of intellectual and political capital behind a solution to this problem. Until we address this type of downright ,present day , abandonment of our citizenry we are doomed as a Nation. We need to worry about every American , every black man , not just the ones that can throw a football or sink a basket.
                              The SmartGuy





How Prisoners Make Us Look Good - NYTimes.com: "A FEW years ago, the sociologists Becky Pettit and Bryan Sykes tried to quantify a worrisome phenomenon: the growing proportion of black men imprisoned by age 20. Focusing on those born between 1975 and 1979 who later dropped out of high school, they noticed an anomaly. “Our initial efforts,” Dr. Pettit recalls, “implied that more young, black, low-skill men had been to prison than were alive.”

It took her no time to resolve the inconsistency: corrections officials count actual prisoners, a captive audience; sociologists and census-takers typically undercount prisoners and former inmates living on the edge of society."

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