Black Cotton

Black Cotton takes a confronting look at the profitable mass incarceration of black males in America. Known as the prison industrial complex, the public and private prisons in our nation have become big business. From the mammoth compounds of our state and federal prisons to the small home town jails, entire communities and even regions depend on the jobs and spin off industries they support. Private prisons are being built at a rapid pace due to the outsourcing of correctional services by state and federal agencies. Many of these firms are public traded and like any other business they are profit driven. The products for these big businesses are inmates, without which they could not exist. As these prison empires plan for growth, they seek ways to keep their prison beds full and this has lead to an ever increasing prisons lobby that advocates for so call get tough on crime legislation and other measures that they know will increase the American prison population which is already the largest in the world. After laws are passed it becomes up to the law enforcement agencies to produce the necessary arrest to satisfy the demand for so called public safety which in turn produces more prisoners. So where does the law enforcement go to fill the demand for bodies? They go to the places where they receive the least resistance, poor minority communities. Low wealth, young black males are the ideal target for the prison industrial complex because they simply don't have the resources or support to fight back when preyed upon. Once slaves that picked cotton in this country, black men have become the new cash crop being picked out of our urban gardens as product for the prison industry.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Prison
• Black
• Men
• Complex
• Jail
• Crime

[LittlePinky82]

It's no lie that there's injustices and prejudices still going on today. Everyone needs to know and get involved in reform.

[scratchneck]

this is injustice, man, so sad

[getaura1]

@sally11110 ,,,its designed this way baby,,could you imagine if all of the niggers were intelligent,,why with their physical strength and abilities of adaptation,,,what white woman would want a white man with all of those gods walking around dominate in (EVERY) aspect,,,every baby born would be brown and would only get darker,,,pretty soon the white man would cease to exist,,,its in the white mans best interest to make sure that niggers never become intellectuals as a collective whole. Hotep

[sally11110]

im a white female,and would like to try and understand just why there seems to be such a vast difference in the percentage of black and other ethnic populations in the prison system as opposed to the white race.

[slickdickdafoola]

everyone aint gonna do shit...iswear along with me the black race might just disapear due to the ignorance and fear we allow...the only upside to that view is the ones just a step up supporting it will be next.