Comments on: Prisons For Profit = A Bullseye For Black Men https://www.okwassup.com/prisons-for-profit-a-bullseye-for-black-men/ News, Entertainment, Lifestyle and more! Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:38:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Mr.BD https://www.okwassup.com/prisons-for-profit-a-bullseye-for-black-men/#comment-12447 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:05:51 +0000 https://www.okwassup.com/?p=20961#comment-12447 First let me give kudos to DJ for covering this topic. You won’t see this story discussed on most web sites. Now the minute they made prisons private and let them make a profit is when everything went downhill from there. Black men were already targets enough but then it was triple the problem. I read there are people who have been in prison for years and still have not had a trial. That is a travesty. Something has to be done about this and I am glad we are at least talking about it.

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By: Truthiz1 https://www.okwassup.com/prisons-for-profit-a-bullseye-for-black-men/#comment-12446 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:14:50 +0000 https://www.okwassup.com/?p=20961#comment-12446 And I’ll just end with this……..

WE know what they’re doing. THEY know that We know what they’re doing and they don’t give a fig. Why?
Because they’re evil. And evil men (and women) commit acts of Evil all the time. It’s second-nature to them.

But there’s also THIS truth. WE can’t blame everything on white men who do Evil. Too many really really stupid Black men commit really really stupid crimes (to say nothing of real acts of violence). And they do it over and over and over again. THEY keep the Prisons For Profit business in business.

You can’t claim to “hate” prison if you keep doing stupid sh*t that gets you sent back there time and time again. I used to counsel state and federal parolees (mostly Black men) who were mandated to come see me. One of the first questions I would ask each parolee is: “So how’d you like prison?” And 99% of the time they’d give the common answer. “hated it”…”couldn’t wait to get out.”

My follow-up question: ‘So how many times have you been incarcerated?’

The usual answer: “Too many.”

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By: Truthiz1 https://www.okwassup.com/prisons-for-profit-a-bullseye-for-black-men/#comment-12445 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:49:45 +0000 https://www.okwassup.com/?p=20961#comment-12445 DJ has done a great thing calling Our attention to this most vile and evil matter…..

[Federal courts imposed prison sentences on black men that were 19% longer than those imposed on similarly situated white men between 2011 and 2016. In fact, according to a 2016 report by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 40% of the US prison population – 576,000 people – are behind bars with no compelling public safety reason.]

Just think about that. We’re not talking about 40 or 50 years ago. This is happening to Us right now! So which Dem candidate is truly taking this on? …championing it in a very vocal manner?, forcing the American people to truly LOOK at this Evil?..and calling it by it’s right name ‘PRISONS FOR PROFIT.’ Which Dem candidate is doing that? Here’s the deal:

[In his criminal justice proposal, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has said he would grant clemency to 17,000 federal inmates serving time for nonviolent drug-related offenses. He proposed this idea in June, as part of his plan to end mass incarceration in the United States. Shrinking the enormous US prison population has become a standard promise from Democrats running for president, and they’ve all decided to focus on nonviolent and low-level drug offenders.] Mother Jones, Sept. 20, 2019

“Shrinking the enormous US prison population has become A Standard Promise from Democrats running for president…” Yep. but somehow they never get around to doing much of anything about it…and that includes Pres. Obama.

Mother Jones: ‘Democrats Say They Want to End Mass Incarceration. There’s No Way They’ll Do What’s Needed to Get There.’

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By: Truthiz1 https://www.okwassup.com/prisons-for-profit-a-bullseye-for-black-men/#comment-12444 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:53:30 +0000 https://www.okwassup.com/?p=20961#comment-12444 Are we ready to talk about and address this problem yet? [..] -DJ

Judging by the so-called Dem “debates” that’s been held thus far. the answer is No.

But thanks to You, DJ..Yes, we’re ready to talk about THIS problem on THIS site (Your site) today!

I’ve got a few comments on this issue but I promise to try to keep each one as brief as possible, beginning with this: I’m tempted to boil this all down to racism…and Yes, it’s rooted in racism. But it’s also rooted in “the LOVE of money” and just plain Evil.

As I’ve expressed before, God had to have been with Us as a people all these 400 years or how else could WE have survived in THIS country!?! It seems there’s NO end to the Evil acts THEY (White men in High places) won’t commit in their blood-lust to dehumanize and destroy Us.

But no matter what THEY do to Us..or how THEY conspire against Us…inflicting the most Cruel and inhumane forms of punishment upon Us….STILL, God is with Us…and STILL, WE Rise.

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