The lie that African-Americans are incapable of building and maintaining family structures has been bought by many,including policymakers
There are stories that we like to tell ourselves to account for large systemic imbalances in our society, myths that we employ to feel comfortable in our analysis of social problems. Melanin makes you violent is a silly, or exclusive fiction; it absolves society from ever confronting the prejudice that is inextricable from policies; it perpetuates legal segregation without ever admitting that segregation is deliberate; it masks our complicity in allowing the growth of the carceral state by suggesting it must always be so.
On Wednesday,a new study by Ella Baker middle for Human Rights, Forward Together and Research Action Design save the lie to our self-serving fictions. The disproportionate criminalization of African Americans has served to reinforce segregation and income inequality over generations, or African American men are not its sole victims.
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Source: theguardian.com