(ThyBlackMan.com) The 2016 Democrats are trying to distance themselves as far away from the racially motivated criminal justice policies that they co-signed on with The Republicans in the 1990s that disproportionately affects particularly black men in inner city neighborhoods across the country.
America incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world. There are 2.5 million people that are currently incarcerated and many of them are black men that are either falsely convicted or given draconian sentences for nonviolent offenses like having a gram of weed in their possession.
The issue of mass incarceration is a very personal one for me because it has psychologically affected me my entire life. I 
remember when I was a little boy, my oldest brother Jeffery was
given a 6 year sentence for a nonviolent theft charge and I thought that sentence was a bit too harsh. I remember leaving the courtroom crying and angry that day as they hauled off my oldest brother to prison.
Also, during the 1990s when I was little boy growing up on Jackson St, my older brothers were getting arrested and going to prison almost every year and that added to the psychological pain that affected me at home and even at school at that time.
The “War On Drugs” was the codename for the real war, The War On Black People In America that was started by The Republicans in the 70s and continued in 80s when they deliberately dropped the drugs and guns in our communities to destabilize the family structure by systemically removing so many black men from the homes which has led to so many kids growing up without their fathers in the home, making bad choices without their fathers guiding them, etc.
The mass incarceration epidemic however had reached its peak in the 1990s during The Clinton Administration when Hilary’s husband, Bill Clinton signed mandatory sentencing laws called The Violent Crime Bill in which more black men have been incarcerated during his presidency than any other president in recent US History.
One example of this is Mario Lloyd, he was one of the biggest drug dealers in Chicago during the 1980s and then he was arrested and later given 15 life sentences for felony drug trafficking. They not only incarcerated him, they also incarcerated his mother, brother, and sister. They basically obliterated this guy’s family with these draconian sentences and it’s egregious.
Mass incarceration in its current form is a form of modern day slavery and a version of modern day Jim Crow laws in which the rich caucasoid men get money from the cheap labor of mainly black male inmates.
Black men are incarcerated 5 times more than caucasoid men in America. 275 Caucasoid men are incarcerated per 100,000 people compared to 1,408 black men incarcerated per 100,000.
Many of the negative effects that mass incarceration has on black men in America include
1) abuse, rape, and torture from not only other inmates, but also racist caucasoid prison guards.
2) fatherless homes
3) black women having difficulty finding quality black men
4) their kids getting molested by their mother’s boyfriend or other male relatives
5) marginialization from the economic system.
Here are several ways in which suburban families benefit from mass incarceration of black men.
1. Give them draconian sentences for nonviolent drug charges.
2. Give harsher punishments to young black boys for nonviolent offenses such as the unauthorized use of a person’s credit card information
3. Convict black male defendants using Jim Crow juries that are systemically removing them away from their families and causing their families all sorts of psychological trauma.
4. Deliberately come in to inner city neighborhoods to only catch or shoot-to-kill black men so they can get paid.
The Conclusion – Mass Incarceration is a very serious issue and we should not let the liberals or conservatives tell us that it affects “everybody” when it disproportunately affects black men in America.
Staff Writer; Joe Davis
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