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 Black Men Missing? January 28, 2006 3:27 PM

Black Men: Missing? By Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. Posted June 22, 2005. http://www.alternet.org/rights/22283 It's downright depressing how, besieged by poverty, disease, violence and mass incarceration, African-American men are conspicuously missing from families and communities. The overwhelming absence of black men has always been one of the most distressing facts about life in America's public housing developments. In Chicago, for example, black women are the vast majority of lease holders in the Chicago Housing Authority; men are like ghosts in the projects. Besieged by poverty, disease, violence and mass incarceration, African-American men are conspicuously missing in action. At one time, this gender imbalance afflicted mostly lower-income neighborhoods. But as we limp into the 21st century, that gender gap is rending the fabric of the entire African-American community. "Where have all the black men gone?" asked the headline on a story by Jonathan Tilove for The Star Ledger in Newark, N.J. The article examined the New Jersey city of East Orange, where there are 37 percent more adult women than men. Tilove wrote that most of the missing men are dead, and many others are locked up or in the military. "Worst yet," he wrote, "the gender imbalance in East Orange is not some grotesque anomaly. It's a vivid snapshot of a very troubling reality in black America." Tilove noted that nationwide, adult black women outnumber black men by 2 million. With nearly another million black men in prison or the military, the reality in most black communities across the country is an even greater imbalance -- a gap of 2.8 million, or 26 percent, according to Census Bureau figures for 2002. The comparable disparity for whites was 8 percent. In some cities the gap is even higher. There are more than 30 percent more black women than men in Baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago and Cleveland. In New York City the number is 36 percent and in Philadelphia, 37 percent. As the black population ages, the gap widens. "By the time people reach their 60s in East Orange, there are 47 percent more black women than men," Tilove wrote. This growing gender gap has enormously negative implications for the future of black America. And there are nuances in the statistics that make the prognosis even bleaker. For example, among well-educated, professional black women -- a group that is growing rapidly -- the gap is a chasm. Surely, that progress for black women is good news that shouldn't be overlooked. However, as black women advance, black men are falling even further behind. In fact, the more successful a black woman becomes, the more likely she will end up alone, Walter Farrell, a University of North Carolina professor, said in a March 2002 Washington Monthly article. As a result, professional black women are having fewer children, meaning that a growing percentage of black children are being born into less educated, less affluent families. The recent edition of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education warns that "a large and growing gender gap in African-American higher education has become a troublesome trend casting a shadow on overall black education progress." The Journal reports that in 2001, there were 1,095,000 black women enrolled in institutions of higher education and only 604,000 black men. The gap, which is even wider at professional schools, has increased since 2001. It's also important to note that despite unprecedented gains, black women are the fastest growing group of inmates in the nation's prisons. And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods. Unless we make some dramatic changes in the way our society tracks black men, all of these conditions will worsen, with increasingly nightmarish consequences. The primary culprit is the tracking of black men into a criminal justice system that a growing number of critics have dubbed the "prison-industrial complex." Many are there because of the so-called war on drugs and its accompanying mandatory minimum sentences. The tracking process begins in elementary school, where African-American males routinely are assumed to be academically deficient and then demonized for their angry reactions to those biased assumptions. Resentful of a system that blithely dismisses their potential, many black boys eventually become alienated from scholastic activity. A recent study found that only 38 percent of Chicago's black males have graduated from high school since 1995. These uneducated youth are the raw material of the prison-industrial complex. Lacking marketable skills, they flock to the ruthless underground economy of drug commerce where they are easily siphoned into the "injustice" system--victims of the drug war. Some also become victims of lethal gun violence --homicide remains the leading cause of death for young black men. Unless we strenuously intervene to better the prospects of African-American men, who incidentally comprise about one-eighth of the earth's entire population of prison inmates, we may just be accomplices to a process of genocide in our own country.  [ send green star]
 
What Must Be Done And What Solutions Can We Offer? January 28, 2006 4:44 PM

Unless we strenuously intervene to better the prospects of African-American men, who incidentally comprise about one-eighth of the earth's entire population of prison inmates, we may just be accomplices to a process of genocide in our own country What Must Be Done And What Solutions Can We Offer? Here My Solution! And My Question Is When Do We Become Concerned When The Numbers of Black Men , Women , & Children Get To Be In prison to the Number of 3 Million , 4 Million , 5 Million or Not at ALL Because Its Just Black Life? Call In To My Radio Station And Voice Your Opinion. Today We have over 2million black childen living beneath the extreme poverty line whats next is FAMINE! Over 5 million jobs outsourced out this country and the black community hasn't clue to address the econoomic pain of black people! No clue about self economic development has a collective efforts ! And The Energy Crisis will force major foreclosures and homelessness on top of Katrinia victims. What should we do? Have we heard anything from the so-called black leadership on this Major ISSUE! Wisdom2See http://www.TalkBlackLiveRadio.com  [ send green star]
 
Solution 101 African American Amnesty Program Back To AFrica January 28, 2006 4:47 PM

Sign Our Petition Gave Us Back A Life For A LIFE December 02, 2004 6:03 PM http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/101631181 The Whole World Can Help Save & GIVE the descendents of AFrican Slaves Children A 2nd CHANCE in LIFE Then Wasting Their Lives ALWAY Behind Steel & Concrete WALLs of Prison. Costing AMERiCan TAXPAYERS Billions PER YEAR & 35,000.00 to $50.000.00 dollar per year for each prisoner! Which has evolved into the private commericalization of HUMAN LIFE CARGO from Profitters who Shamefully Uses the Name of Capitalistism & Democracy has a Sheild to there worton & blaton practices of PURE RACISM ,not withstanding has individual americans but has an hidden instututions that cast shame on the truest & best forms of America Justices System! For Crime that could be Declassified to a MEDICAL Clinical DEFINATIONs ! This Petition offer Atonement & Economic Solutions to ALL NATIONs for Reparations & AMNESTY for the Sins committed upon the descendents of former Africans Slaves'& their Children found approx 1.5 million within the American Prison Walls! Please Read The Reports Found In My Groups Title: 1.5 Million African American Prisoners ,ect. I ASK WHY? I Outlines WHY?, This Great SIn Is Being Practise By this Nation & The Citizens of The United States! Why & For What Reasons can You Jusifty to Jail so MANY African American Men ,Women ,& Children this is a Greatest RACIAL INJUSTICE found hidden within the 21 century of AMericans HISTORY before the World & in behalf of HUMANITY when you COMPARE the Number of Former Africa Slaves Children incarinrated in Prison incomparasion with CHINA total population on approx1.3 billion people vs their criminals in prison equal approx 1.5 million,and please study the comparison to these nations ENGLAND,Russia,Germany,Japan, India, Canada, Spain, France, Italy,African,& South American per population! THIS IS A INJUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!& The Pain Hurts ,In the Eye Sight of Our Earths Creator' & Humanity of US, ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No Nation On Earth Should Allow This Great INJUSTICE To Be Allowed No MATTER what your color,religion ,or politics! This Grants an Atonement Process for the Nations Of the Earth! By Extending Your Moral Authority to correct this Evil & Wick Injustice I Appeal to your moral consious to sign this petition Free the World From this Injustice Committed Upon American 400years old descendents of former Slaves there human rights to Live Out There Lives In Another Country or Nation who would accept them on Terms! I make my appeal the Cry to the Creator! O" God ,Creator Of Us All ,Open the Hearts & Minds of Humanity to See Reason ! O' American GIVE US BACK A LIFE FOR LIFE, For Every African bought into Slavery WHO served America for over 400 years In Slavery , GRANT IN Exchange for their Services ,GIVE US Back A LIFE, FOR A LIFE!AMEN! Join ,Me Now In Agreement with the Creator of US ,All! Who Watch Over & Records the DEEDS of Nations ! I Appeal Please SIGN Our Petition,NOW! Peace http://www.talkblackliveradio.com  [ send green star]
 
1.5 MILLION BLACK PRISONERS OFFERED AMNESTY TO AFRICA January 28, 2006 4:52 PM

.5 MILLION BLACK PRISONERS OFFERED AMNESTY TO AFRICA ! WE CAN SAVE AMERICA BILLIONS IN LESS THEN 3YRS BY RELEASING APPROX THE 1.5 MILLION BLACK MALES , FEMALES, & CHILDREN PRISONERS FROM PRISONS BY INTRODUCING AFRICA- AMERICAN TO AFRICA ANEMISTY PRISONERS REFORM BILL 2004 ARTICLE 101.01 REPARATIONS AND AMNESTY REFORM ACT 2004 THE FORMULA IS AN APPROAH TO RESOLVE AND BEGAN A METHOD OF REPARATION FOR THE CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST THE PEOPLES OF AFRICAN DESCENT, AND WHEREBY THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE FACTS PRESENTED OF THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THE AFRICANS PEOPLES BY NATIONS OF THE EARTH AND ITS RELIGIONIST CONSTITUTE AND ITS GOVERMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,THE EUROPEAN UNION,AND THE UNITED ARABIAN, ISRAEL, AND OF SOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE HELD LIABLE FOR THE PAST AND PRESENT TRANGRESSION AGAINST HUMANITY AND IN THE EYESIGHTS OF ITS EARTHS CREATOR! WHICH PROVIDES THIS PROCESS FOR ATONEMENT AND REPARATION FOR THESE GOVERMENTS TO ENACT TRANSCONTIENTAL GOVERMENTAL AMNESTY ACT.PRESENTED IN ARTICLE 101.01 WHICH READS THAT DEFINATION OF TERMS DEsCRIBED IN ALL CASES RELATED TO DRUG -RELATED OFFENCE BE REDEFINED THROUGH -OUT THE COURTS SYSTEMS TO BE IN ACCEPTANCE WITH SOCIAL-PSYCHOS- DUE TO THE INHERENTED ENVIROMENTAL CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CAUSES OF THE SOCIAL-PSYCHOS EFFECTS. AND THAT THE CONDITION OF THE RESULTS OF THE CLINICAL SOCIAL-PSYCHOS BE DEFINE IN LEGAL DEFINATION ALWAY FROM HIGH- CRIMINIAL DEFINATIONS TO INCLUDE LEVELS OF ACCEPTANCE OF A MEDICAL DEFINATION WHEREBY THE PATIENT -PRISONER FOUND WITHIN THE PRISON WALL MAYBE DECLASSIFIED TO AN MORE APPROPIATE LEVEL OF MEDICAL CLASSIFICATIONS FOR THE PROCESS OF ENACTMENT OF ARTICLE 101.01 ALLOWING FOR THE PROCESS OF THE ANEMISTY REFORM BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PROCESS TO CONDITION PATIENT-PRISONER TO TERMS OF AGREEMENT FOR AMNESTY -RELEASE PROGRAM AND ALLOW FOR TRANSITION OF QUALIFIED ACCEPTED DUEL-CITIZENSHIP OF AFRICA DESCENT TO BE NOT A BURDEN TO THE STATE OR GOVERMENT WHICH IT HAS COMMITTED OF THEM- SELFS OFFENCES WOULD AGREE TO CONDITIONS ACCEPTABLE TO THE TERMS OF ARTICLE 101.01 TO BE MET WITH REQUIREMENTS OF COMPLETIONS OF ALL EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT OF 4YR DEGREE IN DESCRIBED FIELDS OF STUDY IN SCIENCE , BUSINESS, AND AGRICULTURE, ECT. WHEREBY , WE THE FAMLIIES OF AFRICA PEOPLES OF DESCENT REPRESENTED IN THIS ARTICLE 101.01 REPARATION AND PRISON REFORM AMNESTY ACT DECREE THAT THESE SENTENCE SET FORTH UPON THESE PATIENT-PRISONERS SHALL BE REFORMED TO LIVE OUT THERE LIFES IN ANOTHER NATION OR COUNTRIES AND BY IN RETURN FOR THEIR LIFEs AND EXCHANGE FOR THIS ENACTMENT OF ARTICLE 101.01 BILL BEFORE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN AND PARTIES DESCRIBED AGREE TO RELEASE THESE PATIENT -PRISONERS TO A MORE BETTER REFORM AND GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO LIVE A FULL AND FRUITFUL LIFE IN THE LAND OF THEIR ANCENSTRY, ATONING FOR THERE SINS! http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Race_Prison_Poverty.html http://www.webref.org/sociology/i/institutional_racism.htm http://www.ncobra.org/  [ send green star]
 
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