Did you know that America incarcerates males of African decent at a rate 4 times greater than Apartheid in South Africa? Did you know that there are more African Americans in jail today then were enslaved in 1820?

Besides being inhumane, unjust, and wasteful, the war on drugs is also racist. The United States is the world’s leading jailor, the jailed population significantly slanted toward blacks. An estimated one in three young African Americans (aged 18-35) are either in jail or under legal probation. Land of the free indeed. Click here to get the skinny on the new civil rights battle. Report issued in 2001, but not much has changed since then.

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