African Americans In Jail Analysis

The way African Americans are treated inside of jail and outside is actually disturbing. The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners. To think about how big this number is disturbing and numbers keep increasing. The United States prison population in 1970 was just above 327,000, and now the current prison population is just over 2 million. On the one hand I feel American Americans deserve some of the punishment that they get, but on the other I wonder why they are treated the way they are. The standard way of thinking about how African Americans are treated is that they are portrayed as criminals. The reason that African Americans are seen to be this way is because of the way they are shown on television. Television makes them look like they are all bad people, out looking for something bad to do. According to the video that we watched, black men account for an estimated 6.5% of the United States population, however they make up 40.2% of the United States prison population. When

Also, they said that when you do something wrong there shouldn’t be a grudge that is kept for the rest of your life. At some point and time you need to pay back what harm you did and get over it. The video also referred to the KKK never really went away. The people kept saying that because blacks are still getting killed and that was the whole part of the KKK, was to target people. A black male in the video was put in jail for doing nothing. When he went on trial he was sentenced to death. But, the worst part about that is he has been in jail for 14 years are be hasn’t seen the outside world since. They think that there should be something for the people in jail to do that is outside of the locked up cell. Something to do that lets them get out and do something so they aren’t just sitting in a dark, dingy cell all the