Black Male Incarceration

In my essay I talk about how theres been an increase rate of black males being incarcerated and hows theres been so many reason why thats been happening. And how the imprisonment of the black males has effected the life of children, families and so much other. In my essay I will talk about the statistical facts about black males being incarcerated, and I will show the percentage of different types of races who have been incarcerated over time. I will also show why I believe why black males been arrested more than any other races. I will also explain the identity of the African American male. I will also talk about discrimination ,and how that took part in the black culture.

The Increasing Rate Of Black Men In Jail Are Leading

In 2007, 52 percent of prisoners were parents in the United States which is a big number. A lot of people like to call the black men that have been incarcerated the missing fathers. Incarceration can lead to extreme financial distress for the entire family with harsh implications for children. So children with imprisoned parents also do worse in school an important indicator of economic mobility. I believe that it has become a cycle where if the children who become fatherless because they have no one too look up too. And most of the time the other parent is working alot to keep up with the finances. So usually the children have no one to look up too so must of the time children end up doing things that they know thats not safe. And sometimes the children end up going in to crime and going to jail. Sometimes when theres not a strong family home the children don't know what to do

The identity of african american has changed over decades. Definitely when you see a black male you ask a lot of people of what you think of a black male is that you would think dangerous, angry,unsafe and a bunch of other things. Mass Media has portrayed african american male to be very dangerous, which has effected everyone to believe it to be true. Where now you see more african american male getting arrested and killed more because of the stereotypes and the prejudice. They Identity for the african american male has been destroyed because of one of the reason is years of men being incarcerated. I feel like in the african american culture the black male identity is being lost with all the stereotyping and the presumed assumption of the