The Poverty Of African People From Poverty Imprisonment

Servitude in Africa, the organization of bondage as it existed in Africa, and the impacts of world slave-exchange frameworks on African individuals and social orders. As in the greater part of the world, subjugation, or automatic human bondage, was polished crosswise over Africa from ancient circumstances to the current time. At the point when individuals today consider subjection, many imagine the shape in which it existed in the United States before the American Civil War (1861-1865): one racially identifiable gathering owning and misusing another. Be that as it may, in different parts of the world, servitude has taken a wide range of structures. In Africa, numerous social orders perceived slaves simply as property, yet others considered

Mass Incarceration of poor, black male, and increasingly female, young people in the Name of a Bogus War on Drugs

The kind of racism going on in the United States right now makes it nearly impossible to call it out because of the smoke screen created. Racism entrenched in the law can continue unabated because the public and the world will not have a reason to speak against the act of injustice. After all, one committed a crime and was justly punished for it. As this goes on, African American men continue to become a frustrated lot. The police unleash unnecessary brutality on them, invade their privacy in the name of applying the law and downright trample on their constitutional rights. Black children grow up with the mentality that they are not good enough like their white counterparts. In effect, they drop out of school and end up doing odd jobs or engage

We live in a Nation that has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world, standing at about 700 for every 100,000 people are incarcerated. To put that into perspective that's about 1.6 to 2 million people of the 315 million people in the U.S. With about 40% of them being African American. 40% may not sound very high but, the surprising fact around all of these statistics, is only 13% of the entire population is African American. You may ask yourself how is this possible? Well let’s talk about that. The three major factors that contribute to high black incarceration rates are due to broken black communities/growth roots, the recidivism cycle and prejudice among police forces.

The incarceration rate for African Americans is higher than that of Caucasians and has been that way for years. The Blumstein study conducted in 1982, found a disproportion between black and white incarceration rates of seven-to-one (Hawkins & Hardy, 1989). The inequality of incarceration rates within criminal justice lingered. Authors of State and County Incarceration Rates: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Race and Inequality, Thomas Arvanites and Martin Asher, stated that the white majority feels threatened by nonwhite minorities because they believe they are more involved in crime. Blacks were seven times more likely to be incarcerated than whites in 1993. Due to these facts, “cultural conflict theorists argue that law enforcement

African Americans in the US have been through some of the worst situations. They have been dehumanized by white supremacy and systematic oppression. For example, from being slaves, to Jim Crow laws, to segregation, to oppression by being trapped in public housing and high crime rate inner-cities. The main focus of this paper is the problem of mass incarceration in the US. There are currently 2 million people in prison, most are African American men. There needs to be prison reform in order to decrease the number of inmates in prison and help former inmates lead a more productive life after serving time.

“All Men are created equal” a quote from the United States Constitution. Freedom is what the United States stands for it is what it was rooted from. However, we are into the 21st century and the idea that the United States still discriminates against a certain race is taboo to many. Everyone likes to walk around thinking that everything is alright and equal. Sadly this is not true. The African American, especially those found in the urban setting of Chicago is at a disadvantage. This is due to the erosion of the public education system along with fractured families along with other socioeconomic factors which have contributed to the cycles of poverty and ultimately creates a disadvantaged for African Americans in Chicago. For this research paper I’m going to focus on Chicago for its strong roots in the African American Community, but this isn’t just a one city problem the disadvantages to African Americans are spread out throughout the entire country in every major city in every state and there is no hiding from it.

The United States developed the official poverty measures in 1960. It was developed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had declared a war on poverty during the Civil Rights era. (The Path of Power- The years of Lyndon B. Johnson, (Caro, 16). The poverty rate of African Americans has been declining for many years. The Census Bureau releases two reports every year that describe who is poor in the United States based on cash resources. There is also the supplemental poverty measure (SPM) which takes account for the cash resources and non cash benefits from government programs aimed at low income families. (www.Census.gov/People and household). In 2012 there were over 46.5 million people in poverty and of those numbers 10 million were African

The right way is considered to be law-abiding, to simply follow the laws set by government. But what if the government makes it somewhat difficult for people or makes it unfair for some to succeed, then people are judged as being in the wrong. As stated by Bryan Stevenson, “There is power in identity when the ‘right’ identity is created” it is not only up to the person to create the ‘right’ identity, but show society this identity (Stevenson). (Need to add to intro.) Even though, the incarceration rates of African American men are high, discrimination is not the main contributor because African Americans are impacted by poverty in communities, have low educational systems, and are influenced by imprisoned parents.

African American have high poverty levels because they don't have a job and many don't finish school because they have to take care of their family or they didn't have the money to finish an education and get a degree. Many African American have a harder time finding a job because sometimes racial profiling can exist when looking for a job. The mortality rate is higher because African American have more heart attacks, cancer, and diabetes. Hispanic and whites have lower morbidity and mortality rate than the average African American. African American life span is below the normal of what a white person normally lives, a factor that it can contribute to high mortality rates is when African Americans were slaves, and it just kept on rising with

Statistically speaking nearly 1 in 3 Native Americans (29.2%), over 1 in 4 African Americans (27.2%), and 1 in 4 Hispanic/Latinos (23.5%) are below the poverty line (Initiative, 2016). What does this tell us as Public Administrators? It makes us as public administrators what are contributing to these poverty rates and what can we do about it. We as public administrators must be aware of current trends of the overall population and minority groups of the population. For an example, African Americans are more likely to be incarcerated at a rate more than three times their 13.2% share of the overall population.

As one can see, mass incarceration of African Americans is clearly an injustice that needs to be acknowledged and resolved. In my Social and Economic Justice course, several theorists were discussed about what they considered justice and their methods to reach it. In the following paragraphs, I examine Rawls’, Nozick’s, and Mill’s theories in context with the mass incarceration of African American and explain why their proposed solutions would not be applicable to this injustice. Rawls’ theory consists of imagining oneself in what he calls the Original Position, in which we are all self-interested rational people that stand behind the “Veil of Ignorance. By this, it means that people are motivated to select, in an informed and enlightened way whatever seems most beneficial for themselves. However, due to the Veil of Ignorance we do not know certain things such as our race, age, sex, social class, or physical/mental disabilities; we just are aware of the different scenarios that humans could possible face and the facts of humanity. Rawls believes that by having self-interested rational individuals, masked by the Veil of Ignorance, it would create a fair procedure in which fair principles would be chosen in order to govern the world. With this in mind, Rawls argues that these individuals would choose two principles, Principle of Equal Liberty and Difference Principle, to structure society in the real world. The Principle of Equal Liberty states that each person has an equal

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues

Fifty years ago, on the 8th of December 1961, Tanzania witnessed its independence: Tanzania Independence Day. Until the country’s name was changed by the union with Zanzibar it was still called Tangayika. Around that time, many other countries/states within the African continent were obtaining their independence from the British as well as the French colonial states. However, what set Tanzania apart from the other states, just like the state of Ghana was set apart from the other states during the 1950s by the first Prime Minister and president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah’s ‘Black Star’ was the star of Nyerere, his own star, states Saul (2012). “For the latter was then, and however, briefly, on its ascent, with Nyerere linked, by the late 1960s,

Poverty for centuries has been a very severe issue that has troubled many nations while impeding economic developments and progress. Poverty stricken countries are majorly concentrated in the continents of Africa and Asia. Continents like the Americas and Europe have globally been recognized as been wealthier yet still many parts of these ostensible countries face massive cases of poverty. Most at times, countries with high populations owing to high birth rates face the most cases of poverty. The definition of poverty can be boundless in the sense that poverty entails so many subsections as it sometimes gets complicated to group everything under one umbrella. Society tends to focus more on the tangible aspects of poverty because many people associate poverty with lacking money and it makes sense because poverty in terms of lacking money is a major problem affecting almost every country in the world. Even though it is debatable that poverty can be physical, intellectual, spiritual and even emotional, it is best to talk about the lack of money and economic developments in this essay. With reference to the oxford English Dictionary, poverty is state of being extremely poor and the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. Reflecting on this definition given, I deduced that malnutrition and hunger can define poverty. In the light of this, I think poverty is lacking a comfortable place of shelter, being ill and not having access to a better