Racism, Crime, and The Prison System

The wholesale imprisonment of Black people is, consistently, an integral and traditional practice of American jurisprudence. Whether on the local, state or federal level; throughout American history Black people have been routinely exploited as a cheap and readily available labor source as well as a convenient scapegoat for the nation's hatred, paranoia, and guilt. This selective, planned incarceration of Black people is for a variety of reasons and purposes. It is not by accident that African Americans, while only comprising 13 percent of the nation's population, make up between 60 and 70 percent of the jail and prison population nationwide.[1] Once convicted and imprisoned, Blacks can be legally used as components of government and corporate sponsored slave labor. We get a overt indication of this practice with the resurgence of chain gangs in the South, and the development and establishment of private companies investing in Prisons and buying and trading prison stock on the commodities market.[2]There is coiled in the psyche of the rulers of America, a deep and abiding fear. It is an unshakable dread of retribution for centuries of oppression, exploitation and genocide and a white racist fear of genetic dissolution and annihilation, brought on by the realization that whites are a minority of the world population, and a projected minority in the United States by the year 2050. [more ]