Black Imprisonment: A Lecture On Black Incarceration

I used to never look at the Black imprisonment when I was child and the affect that it brought. I lived in an environment where there is lot of African American men being imprisoned. Looking at African American men being imprisoned in my neighborhood my age and younger is very common but I never understand why it happened daily. The lecture today about black imprisonment challenged me culturally, and mentally it bother my attention because from experience I seen my family and friends incarcerated.

This lecture changed my way of thinking about Black Imprisonment. My beliefs were before, that blacks do things that put themselves in the position there in. From the lecture showed that it’s not really the black’s fault that they are imprisoned a lot. From the lecture it was stated that there are more African Americans that are incarcerated then in college and most of them are young African American men. Also that African American men make up more than 50 percent of the prisons in America and most are incarcerated for drug charges.

This lecture left me to question that how and why so much black men are being incarcerated? It should be a reason behind why only a lot of African American men being imprisoned and not any other race. How and why the drugs and guns get into the African American community? Is it so that they could imprison

It is something that she should have said to address the fact on why this problem is here. Also she didn’t address the fact that blacks being incarcerated pose problems for women since they are underpaid to men in the workforce, childcare costs must be considered, and many women don’t have a skill to obtain a decent job which pays a good living wage, to support her and the children. Also black males being incarcerated makes females the head of the household and now most likely in