The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

[Crabtownboy]

An article worth reading, "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration".

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...mily-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/

 

[targus]

Did you read the entire article yourself before posting it?

 

[righteousdude2]

This is one more attempt to make this forum a protest site. The people incarcerated are there not because of skin color, but because they broke laws established by a civilized society. If you don't like, ctb, you can move, like to another country:thumbs:?!

 

[Crabtownboy]

This is one more attempt to make this forum a protest site. The people incarcerated are there not because of skin color, but because they broke laws established by a civilized society. If you don't like, ctb, you can move, like to another country:thumbs:?!

Before spewing ignorant comments try reading the article.

 

[Grayson]

Sorry I stopped reading after the article became yet another "All whites should take responsibility" for something that happened long before any of us where born.

 

[carpro]

It's a choice.

Commit less crime. Spend less time in jail.

Anyone can do it.

 

[targus]

Before spewing ignorant comments try reading the article.

Did you read it yourself?

 

[robustheologian]

Sorry I stopped reading after the article became yet another "All whites should take responsibility" for something that happened long before any of us where born.

This is the attitude of America. smh

 

[carpro]

Sorry I stopped reading after the article became yet another "All whites should take responsibility" for something that happened long before any of us where born.

Agreed. It was a waste of time to read further.

 

[Sapper Woody]

An article worth reading

I disagree.

 

[righteousdude2]

Before spewing ignorant comments try reading the article.

And the court of public opinion does disagree with you on this one crabbytownboy! :tear:

 

[Revmitchell]

This is the attitude of America. smh

Booker T. Washington (who once was a slave) would not be shaking his head:


“notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race." Booker T. Washington

"I have never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed." Booker T. Washington

 

[Crabtownboy]

And what was the result of Washington's accommodation of White folk? W.E.B. DuBois wrote:

In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things, —

First, political power,

Second, insistence on civil rights,

Third, higher education of Negro youth,

— and concentrate all their energies on industrial education, the accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South. This policy has been courageously and insistently advocated for over fifteen years, and has been triumphant for perhaps ten years. As a result of this tender of the palm-branch, what has been the return? In these years there have occurred:

1. The disfranchisement of the Negro.

2. The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.

3. The steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/40

Booker T. Washington (who once was a slave) would not be shaking his head:


“notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race." Booker T. Washington

"I have never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed." Booker T. Washington

 

[Zaac]

Excellent article CTB. The attitudes being expressed on this board are precisely the reason race relations are where they are today.

Nothing short of selfishness and pride would keep anyone from acknowledging that the effects of 300+ years of economic and inhumane oppression have adversely affected Blacks in this country.

These quotes are powerful and succinctly illustrate what is taking place as the result of centuries of economic and other social oppressions.

In essence, the Negro community has been forced into a matriarchal structure which, because it is so out of line with the rest of the American society, seriously retards the progress of the group as a whole, and imposes a crushing burden on the Negro male and, in consequence, on a great many Negro women as well.

“For this, most of all, white America must accept responsibility,” Johnson said. Family breakdown “flows from centuries of oppression and persecution of the Negro man. It flows from the long years of degradation and discrimination, which have attacked his dignity and assaulted his ability to produce for his family.”

It takes a very selfish heart to not acknowledge that the same legacy that has socially and economically privileged Whites to amass more wealth and position in this country( http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/03/26/the-racial-wealth-gap-why-a-typical-white-household-has-16-times-the-wealth-of-a-black-one/ ) has adversely affected Blacks.

 

[carpro]

It takes a very selfish heart to not acknowledge that the same legacy that has socially and economically privileged Whites to amass more wealth and position in this country has adversely affected Blacks.

That explains why blacks continue to commit genocide...on themselves.

Got it.:thumbs:

 

[Zaac]

That explains why blacks continue to commit genocide...on themselves.

Got it.:thumbs:

Perhaps they continue to commit genocide because as their white oppressors have marginalized their lives and those of their ancestors, they have come to marginalize their own lives?

People tell you and treat you like you're nothing and your life doesn't matter long enough, don't be surprised if some start to believe it.

Think on it. :thumbs:

 

[targus]

Psychobabble.

 

[Zaac]

Psychobabble.

 

[righteousdude2]

That should read, racist rants where ever your name is involved! :BangHead:

 

[Alcott]

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

We don't persecute Catholics in this country.