Why Are so Many Black Men in Prison?: A Comprehensive Account of how and why the Prison Industry Has Become a Predatory Entity in the Lives of African-American Men, and how Mass Targeting, Criminalization, and Incarceration of Black Male Yout by Demico Boothe

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African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and
unprecedented rate. Out of the 10.4 million Black adult males in the U.S.
population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5
million more on probation or parole or who have previously been on
probation or parole. Black males make up nearly 75% of the total prison
population, and due to either present or past incarceration is the most
socially disenfranchised group of American citizens in the country today.
This book details the author's personal story of a negligent upbringing in
an impoverished community, his subsequent engagement in criminal activity
(drug dealing), his incarceration, and his release from prison and
experiencing of the crippling social disenfranchisement that comes with
being an ex-felon. The author then relates his personal experiences and
realizations to the seminal problems within the African-American community,
federal government, and criminal justice system that cause his own
experiences to be the same experiences of millions of other young Black
men.
"Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?" will not only scrutinize
specific longstanding problems and certain cultural misgivings within the
African-American community, but will also confront how deliberate actions
on the part of the federal government and several elected politicians over
the past 2 decades paved the way for this crisis to occur and evolve into
the present situation where millions of Black men are experiencing social
disenfranchisement due to mass criminalization, incarceration, and a faulty
criminal justice system.

Theauthor identifies and expounds upon three basic problems that are
the causative factors behind the mass criminalization and incarceration of
African-American males, and provides conclusive supportive facts and
statistics to substantiate these identifications. The three problems
identified are:
(1) Irresponsible and negligent actions on the part of African-Americans,
both individually and collectively, past and presently
(2) A criminal justice system that has been formulated and designed for the
purposes of maintaining a highly visible permanent criminal class within
The United States citizenry
(3) Racism and an element of right wing White supremacist-minded leadership
that has found a way to modernly "re-enslave" and neutralize a large
portion of the African-American population through drug proliferation,
poverty, miseducation, criminalization and incarceration, and misuse of the
law and the criminal justice system, and that has skillfully hidden their
agenda by utilizing "political correctness" and a well crafted scheme that
uses the law and the law-making process to create and promote an unjust
social order.
It is the author's aim to display to the reader very clear facts about this
crisis of Black male criminalization and disenfranchisement; its origin,
development, purpose, and it's affects in terms of how it is stifling all
of the other areas of development for African-Americans, and what steps
that can be undertaken in order to curb and eventually annihilate this
problem. This book also has information that can serve as a guideline for
African-Americans on how to change their longstanding position as a
basically powerless and dependant minority to a more independent and
powerful group within the American and world power structure.

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