tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post8293089152585266797..comments2024-01-17T15:05:50.120-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: A hustle is a hustle...Shark-Fuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-6345064905667627742011-08-15T21:18:23.306-05:002011-08-15T21:18:23.306-05:00I used to teach at an institution for young people...I used to teach at an institution for young people at-risk (a moniker I dislike, actually), many of whom had been in prison for violent offenses. They were minors. Their stories were hair-raising. Due to lack of proper legal representation and a frankly racist judicial system, they were often sent to detention centers for offenses that for my wealthier, suburbanite college students, would never have been considered worthy of jail. I had wealthier students--and white--get in trouble for the same kind of "crimes" and just get community service or a slap on the wrist. Certainly some of the offenses of my poorer students had been truly violent, but others were in the nature of fights and stuff that young people engage in everywhere. There is an economic reason why jails are filled with mostly black and brown people. The propensity for crime does not have anything to do with race, and much more to do with, as has been amply and reliably documented, cultural and economic reasons that ensure minority youth and adults receive a disproportionate amount of punishment in the legal system. Believe me, many profit from this. It is sickening, what we do to our poor children in this society, and how it is "okay" to consider so many of them as "dispensable". We not only shunt them aside, we allow businesses under the guise of organizations providing services (such as incarceration) to profit from their situation.Miss Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00441545812710273964noreply@blogger.com