The black family in the age of mass incarceration
For years it has beenvident that racism is wrong and police brutality, but from “the black family in the age of mass incarceration,” there seem to be more reasons for the incarceration of black males more than the blame on drugs and the color of their skin (Coates, 2015). On the other hand, many researchers and advocates have shown that violent crimes are too real, and it has the same intensity from people all backgrounds and violent black offenders cannot be excepted because of their skin color as this would not help in stopping these crimes is among the black community. Arguably, putting these offenders back to the streets would most probably cause more harm to these neighborhoods while compared to the good that they would. This is one of the hard to understand facts about the age of mass incarceration.
Another surprising fact from the same is that while African-Americans were disproportionately incarcerated and arrested for committing crimes, they were similar and continued to be victimized by the same. During the era of mass incarceration, for instance, in the 1960s, when crimes rates increased within the African-American regions, more police officers, convictions, arrests, and longer sentences were made. Many researchers have described this period as a dreadful and glaring stain on the fabric of American history. But it is surprising how many people view people from African American decency as mere victims, while in a real sense, they are just as active participants as members of other backgrounds (Coates, 2020). However, despite the growing need for the criminal justice systems to stop harming African Americans, it is still evident that African-American leaders who were elected by the community members helped develop it. However, during the whole time, black lives matter activists have not been commenting regarding African-American killings, which highly raises the alarm.
Reference
Coates, T. (2020). The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration. The Atlantic. Retrieved 26 August 2020, from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/.
Coates, T. N. (2015). The black family in the age of mass incarceration. The Atlantic, 316(3), 82.