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Age group 16-18 years old! This is where we will have a panel of men and women who has experience incarceration. We use our panel as example for the next generation of this is where you don't want to be. Do better. Get an education and make something out of yourself

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Tales are not tales when you’re telling the truth...
Seeing the innocent life robbed from our youth
Snatching our babies sentencing them to death like a fragile baby tooth
As they seek to collect bodies like its a tollbooth
Reaching high isn’t good enough when your race is deemed “The Sacrifice”
Sliding through the beltway as if we, livestock are up for grabs being picked off at the roll of dice
Because it's something that entices you leaving us to flee as mice do

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WHAT DO YOU SEE? FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN...

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WHAT DO YOU SEE? FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN...

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It is a cycle that keeps spinning
A washer that’s never-ending
...perpetuated violence is the dirt we’re rinsing
As they walk away from another death is their salvation cleansing
Seeing more bloodshed white master still grinning
The death of a Black person takes us back to the beginning
Taken on boats our “stock” was thinning
Trapped in the inning bullets left imprinting white America just keeps winning
Thinking the police is my savior is a joke…Passing the message “Stay Woke”
​On a deeper meaning, it says, “Beware of white folk”
Surrounded by a herd of pigs on the ground I choke
Protected under the racial law they’re shielded behind their masked cloaks
Like the privilege they invoked
Our rights revoked
Drowning by the breaststroke

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Being shot dead though unprovoked Sentenced to execution before the stroke On a daily, their lives are getting smoked Increased numbers of Black death is no practical joke

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Being shot dead though unprovoked Sentenced to execution before the stroke On a daily, their lives are getting smoked Increased numbers of Black death is no practical joke

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Is it even worth it? How can it change? What statement are we trying to make?

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Because of my melanin, I lose my innocence before my counterpart
Because of my race, I am given harsher sentences for the same crime
Because of my skin, I have presumed a threat
Because of my color, I face prejudicial accusations
Past becomes present...
The present becomes the future..
As time merge it becomes a continuum
Age gets younger as the accusations get deadlier
1955 to 2018 times change and history stays the same
Emmett Till to Jeremiah Harvey seconds from meeting the same unfortunate tragic fate
Being Black in America the results are tragic
Past historical revelations are symbolic
Taken measures ever so drastic

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  Being in the prison system is powerful based on the outcomes of circumstances being made. 

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  Being in the prison system is powerful based on the outcomes of circumstances being made. 

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Remembering to shine the light on the powers of our Black Magic
Trapped in a sophisticated mental state
The inebriated Black man sealed fate.
In a state that does not appreciate the buried bodies that built their home plate
Captivated by the metaphoric sunken place
Except this is no metaphor but a physical representation of the black race
Further sunk in place
Because we are seen as a disgrace
As the protectors in blue kill leaving a trace
But the case...
Seems to be erased as the bodies replace
Those buried under the footrace

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Families suffered and are still suffering for  for their lost one whether they are dead or locked up.

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Rare Cases that actually proves the system did something RIGHT.

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Rare Cases that actually proves the system did something RIGHT.

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In New Jersey, there was a murder that took place. The killer Jeffrey Holland strangled, drowned, and murder his past and present girlfriends along with the boyfriend in front of three children. This proves a little hint of ignorance with a dash of no history and no future. As the evidence is proven the  monster that has been placing behind bars is violent who didn’t think about the actual consequences. Holland sentence is 158 years. The punishment was well deserved and Holland has a record he can't even get out of because he is found guilty of all 18 charges. This relates to chapter one based on equality because in  this case justice was served correctly. Not only that is set a foundation for the people who believe in the system that don’t take your freedom for granted because things like this can set us back.

Based on the article: People Magazine N.J. Man Strangled and Drowned Girlfriend, Before Murdering Ex and Her Boyfriend in Front of 3 Kids

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Effects of Incarceration

A criminal record can reduce the likelihood of a callback or job offer by nearly 50 percent. The negative impact of a criminal record is twice as large for African American applicants.

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Racial Disparities in Incarceration

In 2014, African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population.

African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites.

The imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that of white women.