He also has to learn the “laws of the hood”. He sees the local drug dealer with all the glitz, glamour, and money. The police try and stop him from getting his money thus becoming his enemy. His choices are now to work for minimum wage or become a corner lookout (with the pay being 10 times the minimum wage). Inner city choices are different. Society is not building high paying factories there. What the young black males sees is crime, drugs, eventually a ail cell, or death. What society needs is a solution that will allow the young black male to be able to prosper legitimately in society, perhaps a free education for those who maintain a standard GPA. It would cost no more than what it does to incarcerate a person. The government spends $38.2 billion to maintain the nation’s state correctional facilities. On one inmate per year, $22,650 was spent in 2001. This is roughly the cost of tuition at any number of colleges around the country. In conclusion, there is a society issue that needs to be addressed in our young African-American makes. Society thinks that we live in a society that has got it made. However this can’t be farther from the truth for our young black makes today. It is shocking and unacceptable. America pays its debts to others that it has wronged. Why not fix the relationship between society and the black male? The black race is a proud race of people and is not always looking for a handout as portrayed. Booker T. Washington said ,”I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” As far as the obstacles the African-American race has overcome, why not assist in helping us overcome our largest obstacle of opportunity?
He also has to learn the “laws of the hood”. He sees the local drug dealer with all the glitz, glamour, and money. The police try and stop him from getting his money thus becoming his enemy. His choices are now to work for minimum wage or become a corner lookout (with the pay being 10 times the minimum wage). Inner city choices are different. Society is not building high paying factories there. What the young black males sees is crime, drugs, eventually a ail cell, or death. What society needs is a solution that will allow the young black male to be able to prosper legitimately in society, perhaps a free education for those who maintain a standard GPA. It would cost no more than what it does to incarcerate a person. The government spends $38.2 billion to maintain the nation’s state correctional facilities. On one inmate per year, $22,650 was spent in 2001. This is roughly the cost of tuition at any number of colleges around the country. In conclusion, there is a society issue that needs to be addressed in our young African-American makes. Society thinks that we live in a society that has got it made. However this can’t be farther from the truth for our young black makes today. It is shocking and unacceptable. America pays its debts to others that it has wronged. Why not fix the relationship between society and the black male? The black race is a proud race of people and is not always looking for a handout as portrayed. Booker T. Washington said ,”I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” As far as the obstacles the African-American race has overcome, why not assist in helping us overcome our largest obstacle of opportunity?