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| Justice or JUST us? |
Hello I am back!! So my two worst enemies are the destruction of the Black race/community: HIV and mass incarceration, which is coincidentally linked because men tend to have sex with men while locked up but don't consider themselves gay. We as a community are so homophobic we don't accept or men being gay or bi-sexual so they are forced to be on the down low, meaning hiding their sexuality and preferences therefore sometimes still having sex with us, increase transmission of HIV infection.
Did you know that more Black American males are incarcerated in 2013 than enslaved in 1850? Yup do the research, below is some recent statistics.
In the state of California, to prevent violence, prisoners are segregated by race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation while held in county jails and in the California Department of Corrections, reception centers, where newly committed prisoners are assessed prior to being transferred to their "mainline", long-term institutions.
In the past two decades, the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education. In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, versus $5.7 billion on higher education..... The state spends $8,667 per student per year. It spends about $50,000 per inmate per year. Why is this happening? Prisons are a big business. Most are privately run. They have powerful lobbyists and they have bought most state politicians. Meanwhile, we are bankrupting out states and creating a vast underclass of prisoners who will never be equipped for productive lives.
So our job as a minority, non-white community is to educate ourselves and our youth on the so-called justice system in America and focus on positive development such as education and social services. Open our minds and hearts to different lifestyle choices, because in the end only God can judge us and we ALL fall short of sin.
Knowledge is power! Peace, Love and Strength
T. Davis
