Anymore, it's got to come from within any community because the problems don't discriminate. It overwhelmingly hasn't been started in the homes of all races for a while. God bless and keep us all❤🙏
Bless you Mr, Washington for holding up a mirror to our own fatal , personal mistakes! Once we claim the blame allocated to us , then things might improve and change!❤
He bats the "where was his father" locked up part away but it was the system that locked them up, when they shouldn't have been. So the system got there -before- the house getting in order. These aren't separate issues, they're intertwined.
@@coldhands2802 This is a pretty easy one honestly though it is a combination of things. First - it's the over policing of these communities, which leads to them to be arrested more for what we'd, especially today, consider a minor "crime". Let's take marijuana possession/use for instance. We know that statistically, black and white communities use marijuana at the same rate. However, the black community was arrested and the sentences given were at disproportionately higher rates for this same "crime". I put crime in quotations because the concept of someone using a drug being a crime is silly. No evidence of this is better than the fact I can now walk to a dispensary near my very nice, affluent neighborhood and buy some weed while there are black men serving 20+ years for a possession charge of it. Drugs are a public health issue, not a crime. But the intent was never to produce better public health, hence the disproportionate targeting and as DEA studies have shown - they did nothing to impact the issue. This was especially compounded by police funding being tied to drug busts. So you have a disproportionate punishment system that is incentivized by it's funding source to increase that disproportionate issue instead of fix it. This is why you see police planting drugs on suspects, not simply to make arrests, but because it directly impacts their funding by achieving more drug busts. As usual it's "about the money, Lebowski". To make the disproportionate difference clearer - let's take something like, crack cocaine vs powder cocaine. Despite the fact they are the same drug, (crack cocaine is just watered down and baked cocaine) the one that was associated with poorer, black communities as opposed to white wall street has not only the same jailing difference disproportion again but the SENTENCING difference was simply INSANE. The difference in sentencing from crack cocaine to powder cocaine was 100-1 and crack cocaine had forced mandatory sentencing for first time offense, which no other drug had. As an example from one study - " Crack is also the only drug that carries a mandatory prison sentence for first offense possession. A person convicted in federal court of possession of 5 grams of crack automatically receives a 5 year prison term. A person convicted of possessing 5 grams of powder cocaine will probably receive a probation sentence. The maximum sentence for simple possession of any other drug, including powder cocaine, is 1 year in jail". 5 grams is nothing, and first time chargers were mandatory. Meaning even if a judge didn't want to hand that sentence down, their hands were tied. So these policies targeted poorer, black/brown communities with not only disproportionate arrests but HIGHLY disproportionate sentencing requirements. These policies have been directly linked in studies to the disruption in nuclear families in these communities. That isn't even getting into issues like privatized prisons holding prisoners for longer than they should be held for, or our lack of intent to reform prisoners, it ends up being the opposite causing high recidivism rates. I hope I've made that clear enough.
![Eminem - Houdini [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/22tVWwmTie8/mqdefault.jpg)
100% correct. This isn’t complicated, but the change will have to come from within the black community.
Anymore, it's got to come from within any community because the problems don't discriminate. It overwhelmingly hasn't been started in the homes of all races for a while. God bless and keep us all❤🙏
Starts at home
This man is a preacher in another life.
Bless you Mr, Washington for holding up a mirror to our own fatal , personal mistakes! Once we claim the blame allocated to us , then things might improve and change!❤
I agree with Denzel that it starts in the home
Accountability! Personal accountability! It starts in the home, once you catch it it’s with you for life.
So true 👍
Preach brother 🙌
If Denzel wuz a preacher I would never miss church
Amen amen and amen 💯
Jesus is king ❤😊
No truer words have been said! Thank you Denzel.
Denzel Washington is so smart! He does not complain about minorities! ❤❤
Jesus is the way the truth and the life 😊😊❤😊❤
A very smart american...
He refuses to play the victim card .. good man .. the only way to get Strong trough life
Denzel, the voice of reason.
A man's man. Denzel Washington.
So true 💯
The same thing happens with war
True and heart breaking 💔💔
Well said
Jesus is the way the truth and the life ❤😊
Looks to your parents children, they set you on your path....
His father was locked up because he was the 14yo murderer. It’s vicious cycle
Denzel 2028
This is an Intelligent Man.
So true Denzil.
Unfortunately we have a victim/blame culture going on and that crosses overt most cultures, creed and colour.
Family, God
Mic 🎤 Drop
13% = 51%
So good to hear a coherent argument rather than the usual claim of systemic racism 🙄
His father was damaged by the system
The prison industrial complex rose simultaneously with the democratic plantations welfare state. What is the common denominator.... Fatherlessness.
Most of them didn't even know there father .
We're you would be like #4 father figure?
Please revel your 4-9 years old life
Yes it starts at home, and the fool you're talking to is ok with murders and grapest out on the street.
He bats the "where was his father" locked up part away but it was the system that locked them up, when they shouldn't have been. So the system got there -before- the house getting in order.
These aren't separate issues, they're intertwined.
Stop. You say “shouldn’t have been”
PLEASE EXPLAIN
That may apply to some people's case, but more often than not, no they weren't innocent. We're talking 1000s to 1. Possibly more. Don't make excuses.
They are separate issues. One comes before the other.
They shouldn't have been? Why? Tf are you even talking about??
@@coldhands2802 This is a pretty easy one honestly though it is a combination of things. First - it's the over policing of these communities, which leads to them to be arrested more for what we'd, especially today, consider a minor "crime". Let's take marijuana possession/use for instance. We know that statistically, black and white communities use marijuana at the same rate. However, the black community was arrested and the sentences given were at disproportionately higher rates for this same "crime". I put crime in quotations because the concept of someone using a drug being a crime is silly. No evidence of this is better than the fact I can now walk to a dispensary near my very nice, affluent neighborhood and buy some weed while there are black men serving 20+ years for a possession charge of it. Drugs are a public health issue, not a crime. But the intent was never to produce better public health, hence the disproportionate targeting and as DEA studies have shown - they did nothing to impact the issue. This was especially compounded by police funding being tied to drug busts. So you have a disproportionate punishment system that is incentivized by it's funding source to increase that disproportionate issue instead of fix it. This is why you see police planting drugs on suspects, not simply to make arrests, but because it directly impacts their funding by achieving more drug busts. As usual it's "about the money, Lebowski".
To make the disproportionate difference clearer - let's take something like, crack cocaine vs powder cocaine. Despite the fact they are the same drug, (crack cocaine is just watered down and baked cocaine) the one that was associated with poorer, black communities as opposed to white wall street has not only the same jailing difference disproportion again but the SENTENCING difference was simply INSANE. The difference in sentencing from crack cocaine to powder cocaine was 100-1 and crack cocaine had forced mandatory sentencing for first time offense, which no other drug had. As an example from one study - " Crack is also the only drug that carries a mandatory prison sentence for first offense possession. A person convicted in federal court of possession of 5 grams of crack automatically receives a 5 year prison term. A person convicted of possessing 5 grams of powder cocaine will probably receive a probation sentence. The maximum sentence for simple possession of any other drug, including powder cocaine, is 1 year in jail". 5 grams is nothing, and first time chargers were mandatory. Meaning even if a judge didn't want to hand that sentence down, their hands were tied.
So these policies targeted poorer, black/brown communities with not only disproportionate arrests but HIGHLY disproportionate sentencing requirements. These policies have been directly linked in studies to the disruption in nuclear families in these communities. That isn't even getting into issues like privatized prisons holding prisoners for longer than they should be held for, or our lack of intent to reform prisoners, it ends up being the opposite causing high recidivism rates. I hope I've made that clear enough.