I’ve taken the Disability test, which the answer is what I initially thought of myself. However, I’d like to know how it came to that conclusion. Was it how well or quick I played the matching game? Was it my demographic and my personal information in regards to age and where I live? In addition, I’ve taken the tests on Religion, Age, Presidents, and Sexuality. For the most part, nothing surprising as I’m aware with who I am.
“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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