Presentations: Any and Everywheres

This group did their presentations on the number of black males incarcerated as opposed to the number of black males in college. They stated that out of 200,000 incarcerated males 81,000 of them were African American. They also went on to say that the three main reasons for the large number of black males being incarcerated were poverty, child neglect, and racial profiling.
I agree with child neglect because I feel that children young boys especially find a false sense of comfort and brotherhood amongst other young men in the streets that don’t have father figures at home to guide them. I also agree that some of the older men incarcerated and maybe a few young men are incarcerated due to racial profiling. I say older because I believe around the 1980’s when the number of black men incarcerated tripled., it was because it was during a time where being openly racist was still okay and black men were usually targeted by racist officers. However I do not fully agree with the poverty reasoning, In the presentation they stated that black men don’t have the basic necessities so they get it by any means necessary. Personally I disagree, I feel that black men have basic necessities but they feel that basic isn’t enough so they sell drugs and steal so tat they can get what they want fast without having to work too hard for it. I know this doesn’t pertain to all black male but poverty is an excuse for those who do steal and sell drugs to get ahead instead of working hard.

~Ashlee White~