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<p>You’re right and wrong: Acting out doesn’t lead to good outcomes for anyone. However, we should look at the facts of the African-American males situation:</p>
<p>[The</a> majority of African-Americans prisoners are behind bars for nonviolent crimes, mostly drug charges.](<a href=“http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/99-03_REP_OneMillionNonviolentPrisoners_AC.pdf]The”>http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/99-03_REP_OneMillionNonviolentPrisoners_AC.pdf) </p>
<p>[African-American</a> males are 10 times more likely to be convicted for a drug charge.](<a href=“http://www.hrw.org/en/node/81105/section/7]African-American”>http://www.hrw.org/en/node/81105/section/7) </p>
<p>[An</a> African-American without a criminal record has a harder time finding work than a white male ex con all things being equal](<a href=“http://lsnc.net/equity/category/employment/]An”>http://lsnc.net/equity/category/employment/). An African-American with a record is almost precluded from entering the workforce entirely. </p>
<p>So what we’re left with is the following situation: A lot, if not the majority, of African-American males are forced to attend vastly inferior schools by no fault of their own. Despite needing more programs to keep them from falling victim to the allure of the street they get far less. They are less likely to get hired even with the same objective qualifications of a white male. If they can’t find work and resort to selling drugs they are banned from the workforce forever – which isn’t the story for white ex-cons. If they use drugs – and I highly doubt that they use drugs much more often than whites – they are far more likely to go to jail. And if they go to jail…well you get the picture.</p>
<p>I don’t think we should discount these factors and blame African-American males for their situation entirely. There are plenty of white guys that should be in jail for selling and consuming drugs like marijuana but got off because Joe the cop lives next door and doesn’t think he’ll do it again. No such luck for black guy.</p>