Racism, Crime, and The Prison System
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 04:47PM
TheSpook
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
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