America jails three thousand one hundred nine out of every 100,000 black males. Such a ridiculously high number of black males incarcerated is not uncommon. There is a disproportioned amount of exposure of crimes committed by African Americans. Conservative media outlets such as newspapers, popular online blogs, and radio can aggrandize black crimes which causes prejudice with people who use those sources, adding on to the already prejudice societal views. The American systems have always been against the social, economic and educational advancement of African Americans since the end of slavery.
In 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery in the Southern states that had seceded. After the complete abolishment of slavery in every American state, the sharecropping system came into play. Sharecropping, was a brutal system of farming that was usually kept by ex-slave owners who lacked sufficient funds to pay these former slaves, who know nothing but how to farm. In the sharecropping system called for farmland and farm work to split into dividends between the landowner, the farmer and the person who provided the seeds, tools and machines needed for farming. Seeing as most
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Since sharecropping was the way of commerce for African Americans for about 80 years, with manual labor being their specialty, the new technology forced them out of work. The technological advancement in labor made African American involuntarily unemployed by the masses. In this time of the nineteen forties were racism is rampant in the United States, no one wanted to hire black people. Considering no one wanted to hire black people it led to social pathology which evinced into black on black crime. Also breaking apart the black family. African Americans were expelled into treacherous ghettos that was poverty ridden and high in