Topic: Let's settle this question finally: why are there more blacks in prison in America than whites?
Anonymous A started this discussion 9 years ago #62,201
Help settle this age-old question.
| Poll option | Votes | Percentage | Graph |
|---|---|---|---|
| Because of systemic racism | 6 | 67% | |
| Because blacks commit more crimes than whites | 3 | 33% |
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #783,346
African-Americans now live "in the first prison society of history" The 'hyperghetto' constitutes the fourth stage in the development of 'peculiar institutions', following (sequentially) slavery, Jim Crow, and the early ghettos. According to him, the ghetto and the prison are for all practical purposes indistinguishable, reinforcing each other to ensure the exclusion of African-Americans from general society, with governmental encouragement. As Wacquant vividly characterizes it: the prison should be viewed as a judicial ghetto and the ghetto as an extrajudicial prison.