In Choosing to focus on the Calarts Garden I thought a lot about my time at Portland State University where we had a garden that helped feed people who went to the school (college students a lot of them on food stamps or young parents who were struggling to feed healthy food to their children) and people who lived around our campus (the homeless community of SW downtown). The Garden turned into a no questions asked way for people get food without feeling ashamed of their economic standing. I honestly think every college should have no questions asked ways for its students to get healthy food and a garden is a great way to do that.
“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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