This article brought some interesting thoughts to mind. I was reminded of times when I was younger and traveling with large youth groups and how I'd always be so observant the people around me. Because everyone looked different than me. I always considered myself to not judge by appearances, and treat everyone fairly equal. In reading the article (and taking the test) I found how common it is to hold these subconscious bias in regards to the different types of people we interact with, especially when we don't know much about an individual or community.
“With five percent of the world's population, the US incarcerates 25 percent of the world's prisoners” (Daisy Hudson, Noisey Magazine. 2014). That same year “African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population, though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprised 56% of all incarcerated people in 2015 (NAACP). The prison system in America serves not as a correctional facility, but a container for which black bodies are buried alive. The conditions of which inmates are kept, the disparity in numbers and portrayal of those incarcerated. There is no question that factors such as education, employment, mental and physical health; the lack of access to such resources targets and propels African Americans through the pipeline to prison. In our history, it seems that prison, or largely the criminalization of African Americans, Black men in particularly, has been used as a tactic of oppr...
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