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06-25-2012, 03:52 PM
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Thought many are...at least as shown in the movies... More black men are in prison than enslaved during 1850. ColorLines' Thoai Lu is reporting that the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that as of 2008, there were more than 846,000 black men in prison, making up 40.2 percent of all inmates in the system Alexander argues that prisons have become the latest form of economic and social disenfranchisement for young people of color, particularly black men. In it, she grapples with a central question: If crime rates have fluctuated over the years and are now at historical lows, then why have rates of incarcerated men of color skyrocketed over the past 30 years? http://www.theroot.com/buzz/more-bla...-enslaved-1850
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