America has imprisoned so many Blacks it has skewed our view of racism

America imprisoned so many Blacks it has skewed our view of racism
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Attorney Antonio Moore discusses new Washington Post Article, “America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality”. In the video he details a rate of incarceration for young black males never seen before globally, and the resulting fallout. There are more African American males incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Finland, Israel and England combined. These countries represent 2 billion people, there are only 20 million black males counting children.

Antonio Moore, an attorney based in Los Angeles, is one of the producers of the Emmy-nominated documentary Freeway: Crack in the System. He has contributed pieces to the Grio, Huffington Post, and Inequality.org on the topics of race, mass incarceration and economics. Follow him on YouTube Channel Tonetalks

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