Disproportionate Number of Young Black Men in Prison - "Lost Generation" - A WRAL Documentary
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- Black men made up only about 10 % of North Carolina's population in 2004, but accounted for nearly 60% of North Carolina's prison population. Why do so many of these young men end up behind bars?More importantly, what are the solutions to such a deeply rooted issue?
The WRALDoc team investigates the high percentage of young black males in North Carolina's criminal justice system by following the life of Dwight McLean. Gerald Owens hosts. This program originally aired December 15, 2004.
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I lived a very similar upbringing to those Black men, but...I was determined to do right, to follow God, and to not become a statistic, so I made it.
+ BlackThoughtAchieves Yes, you can overcome your upbringing. Thank God & good job!!!🙌🏾💁🏾♀️🙌🏾💁🏾♀️
Edgetrading is butthurt
@EdgeTradingFX- Glad he didn't answer your question. Psycho for no reason lol. Yes, there's people who switch to better lives. Just because you didn't didn't mean he can't. World doesn't revolve around how you made your choices compared to someone who lived like you. And if you never lived that life, who're you to ask someone who said they changed their life. If you didn't live that life, you're a keyboard warrior...
I 'am a White Man and I grow up in a poor family, no father, mom on welfare, me my two brothers and two sister all did well! You can be poor but do the right thing!
That doesn't go along with the left-wing narrative, billy. Expect to be cancelled.
then u-r in the BIG minority
@@Greggee100 nonsense.
Bi**h u wanna medal for not being trash this country was made for yall to succeed your story isn't special
You're also a white. The consequences of that type of situation don't weigh the same for you as they do for a black person. There isn't a systemically racist and oppressive system set up to prevent you from succeeding. Why would u not be able to come out of a poor family background? The system was built specifically for someone like you to do just that.
The mother good lord.
Why is it so hard for people to not have babies they can’t financially and emotionally take care of???
Well the poorest produce the most offspring so they can get higher welfare benefits. Something you look familiar with. 👍
@@Gold3n8oY3 No, I don’t agree to the welfare angle…wrong. The poorest do in fact have more babies and those with the highest education have the least. If you look at stats in America, you’ll find the poorer of any community are always the least educated with the most children…which many become drug dealers and young mothers and on and on….just future predators.
When you r horny u cant help but just f.u.c.k whatever u can find. Typical black people!
@@Gold3n8oY3We know that's false because welfare is literally chump change and most single black mothers work while u black males have the highest unemployment rates. Do better & raise your sons better
I'm 63 years old , , to this very day I can't find an answer to this question.
It doesn't matter how you were raised everyone knows in their heart that taking a life is a abomination against humanity
Even the criminals know it.....and do it anyway.
So why is okay for a military veteran to take over hundreds of lives for americas purpose? Because it’s on paper?
They commit disproportionate number of violent crimes so there will be more of them in prison period
BULLSEYE.
@@ems3832BULLSHIT!
The high crime epidemic begins with a poor family foundation. Broken homes created by deadbeat dad, teenage pregnancies, abuse in the home. But in the black community there is this perpetual scapegoating of single mothers being blamed for everything. No one ever points at the deadbeat dads who abandoned their children especially their boys. They’d get caught up in bad influences by awful role models. In this case the boy followed his criminal uncle. His family have a history of incarceration. It’s choice to continue a destructive generational pattern
OMG. This woman doesn’t know the difference between 2 arrest and 10. She is just as bad as she ever was. It’s no wonder her kids wound up the way they did.
If they stop committing crimes they'll stop getting locked up I'm black grow up poor I'm not committing crimes
The music they listen to is violent, the neighborhoods they live in the worst. I live in Chicago and if you go to the black neighborhood there is a big difference. To this day I don’t know why, but they disproportionately commit more crimes. I don’t know why
Some people have enough sense to do better some don't
Thank you so much for this video!
At 2:35. They believe the sentence of life was based on the crime and not his upbringing. No shit seriously WTF is wrong society today.
This is why I will never be Pro Life. That woman should have never been a mother. Her son never stood a chance.
Ok I’m saying it, please tell me how people like these say it’s “Da white mans fault”? This is ridiculous. All I heard was a bunch of excuses.
Poverty is socially engineered by those who hoard the resources.
@@ConsidertheCrows as someone who should've been one of those statistics I call bs, yeah the system is tragic but you can get out, I did, and shouldn't have, let's stop making excuses.
@@lumbee1986 Making it out of the lowest strata of the class construct does not make the construct cease to exist.
Shut your dumb ass up, spoke only what you know which is nothing!!!
Poverty stricken first generation migrants from Asia have the same obstacles as poverty stricken African Americans, but Asians (especially East Asians from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong) do at least as well as white American people, in many studies East Asians do better than anyone else.
It's not really about poverty, it's about self respect and dignity, self esteem and confidence to at least try to improve their lives.
You guys better straighten up. Turn to GOD. Think before you act , once its done its too late just own it.
Y'all Know WHY. You promote destruction in television and music to the young black man THEN say why ALL these young men in prison.
They had to resort to such a thing. There were no opportunities given to blacks ever. If blacks tried to create their own opportunities say, for example of they opened up restaurants - tell me how many white people would be willing to go to a black owned black cooked restaurant in the 80s and the 90s? None. There was no way. Hence such paths were taken.
@@erenzitelmann5802 you are Jewish
@@Flashyfinancier So?
@@erenzitelmann5802 just saying
Dont mean u have to listen to the music stop being so weak
Thankyou this documentary has helped me understand people better and not judge and that our upbringing and people around us growing up like family do affect us good or bad.
Only to a point. You'd better judge, if you want to stay alive.
Disgusting that this is about a 'deprived' murderer and not the poor man who was killed and his loved ones. Poverty doesn't commit crime - people do, and it's a CHOICE.
Very right
There is no way he could have imagined the consequences of his actions given the bleakness of his condition. The victim was old nearly done with his life they took this boys entire chance at life not the half he Stole. This is why we have to expose young black men to life beyond the racist south. They have to see more so they know they can become more.
@@KingdomInnovateX the South isnt racist
Absolutely correct, Marcus!
@@KingdomInnovateX Give it a rest, josh.
Why is it when I was in high school blacks made up the least population of school, but they were always body boxing and doing school fights? Seriously what's up with that?
They are different. Even their music is filled with violence and murder. They jam to that shit. Country music isn’t like that
&&&& its mind blowing how his uncle can lead his nephew to Rob innocent working folks Instead of helping his nephew get a job at the same building he was working at ... this case was beyond sad . .. 19 years old life gone down the drain .... 💔💯
The fact that his mom said she considers herself a good mother🤦🏾♀️
She may be a good home burglar
@Flashyfinancier not even that
@@Flashyfinancier barely.
She must be better than his absent father
What do you tell a black man when he enters prison? Welcome home bro!
As a child you learn right from wrong . Cross the line...pay the fine . Regardless of ethnicity
They should use the one's serving around 20 years in Alaska to build roads and building and farms. Maybe teach them to build and when released keep them on with a payroll and open up part of Alaska as ice melting.
I totally agree!
Are there any updates on Dwight McLean?
some cultures promote constructive behavior others promote chaos and mayhem
Ultimately though, these Young Men CHOOSE THE Lifestyle and all that leads to where they are and all the Role Models and Money and Social Workers in the World can't change that Fact
Here's how it works. Mandatory minimums, lock up the father. Son grows up without father. Father can never get a job as a felon so he reoffends. Mothers get welfare money from the state. The taxpayers lose because government ass holes can't actually do something positive to attempt to remedy the situation, cops get the brunt of the blame. But really, the courts and the for profit prisons lobby successfully for this outcome.
This process is a shit stain on our otherwise great nation. Taking freedom away from us all, leaving our country with one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
Correct, Mr. Baldwin!
It is sad you have to be taught not to murder someone. Should that not go without saying? Should that not be in innate thought in your head?
Not when you’re being brainwashed to kill people.
It SHOULD be but males are born into the wheelchair ramp of life and without discipline, stable home, moral code, purpose or philosophy…they run amuck.
I have a niece who has 3 children she doesn’t take care of because she wants to run the streets and sell drugs with her boyfriend. Her mother is left to take care of her daughter’s children. This is not society’s fault. This happens all over Baltimore City!
What were your nieces parents like?
Sounds like Daddy’s little girls the movie
&&& how has the kids been since your last post nn what the update on there mother . ?
The problem we have to solve is that of upbringing. The Black community has to solve this themselves, though the white community must be supportive. Throwing money at people will not solve this. Using money to create education and opportunity is critical.
THE WHITE COMMUITY MUST BE SUPPORTIVE? LOL!
Let us not forget that all crimes hurt everyone whether you realize it or not, whether its effects are immediate or long-term, but when you add White Collar Crimes (inflated insurance claims, real-estate fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, racketeering, etc.) to Blue Collar Crimes (armed robbery, looting, carjacking, murder), then factor in crimes against wildlife (illegal hunting, illegal fishing, overfishing), and environmental crimes (toxic waste dumping, illegal logging, oil spills, illegal mining), blacks do not commit the most crimes, not by a longshot, and blacks weren't responsible for the theft of North America or the extinction of wildlife species in North America.
So relative to their population, whites commit the most crimes but do not make up the majority of the people who are incarcerated. A better explanation as to why there are more blacks behind bars might be because they can't make bail. BUT THE REAL QUESTION IS WHAT DRIVES WHITES TO COMMIT THE MOST CRIMES? NO ONE CAN CHALLENGE THESE FACTS!
The problem with them is that they refuse to address this issue. They avoid the subject, sweep it under the carpet and get triggered when someone calls it what it is
LET'S SEE HERE; Mass school shootings, antisemitism, racially motivated hate crimes, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, health care fraud, insurance fraud, tax fraud. bank fraud, misappropriation or theft of funds, SEE WHERE I'M GOING HERE? Illegal trading of stocks, identity theft, bribery, intellectual property theft, fraudulent investment schemes, anti-trust violations, computer and internet fraud, falsifying financial records and medical records, counterfeiting, racketeering, gun trafficking, money laundering, illegal logging, illegal mining, illegal hunting, illegal fishing, overfishing, poaching, Insurrection Against the US Government. Guess who are the usual suspects?
The problem we have to solve is that of upbringing. The white community has to solve this themselves, though the community in general must be supportive. Throwing money at people will not solve this. Using money to create education and opportunity is critical.
@@lmusima3275- Mass school shootings, antisemitism, racially motivated hate crimes, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, health care fraud, insurance fraud, tax fraud. bank fraud, misappropriation or theft of funds, SEE WHERE I'M GOING HERE? Illegal trading of stocks, identity theft, bribery, intellectual property theft, fraudulent investment schemes, anti-trust violations, computer and internet fraud, falsifying financial records and medical records, counterfeiting, racketeering, gun trafficking, money laundering, illegal logging, illegal mining, illegal hunting, illegal fishing, overfishing, poaching, Insurrection Against the US Government. Guess who are the usual suspects?
The problem with them is that they refuse to address this issue. They avoid the subject, sweep it under the carpet and get triggered when someone calls it what it is
Did anyone else cry??
Private Information he killed somebody ! He spit on people , he deserves what he got !
Yes, my p$@is head...
Ghidina S that’s how the wolves get the sheep
NOPE!!!
Hell no 1+1=2
The only thing I’ve seen work is prayer and another family member stepping in at an early age and providing tutoring and proper guidance. If no one is willing to do that then a miracle has to occur.
@@jamiezenichi1017 I really wish it was that simple or black and white. My family member was not doing anything wrong. Some young skin heads shot into a group of young black males. He got shot. The police arrested the shooter who was a senior white male in high school. His parents had money for good lawyers etc. The son did not go to jail. They ask the judge to allow to pay his medical bills from the shooting and apologize. He got off. The system is not fair to all.
I have above average intelligence and I could see the traps in the abusive environments we call family, church, school, neighborhood, culture. All seemed to try to destroy me as a boy and teen. I literally had to mentally transcend all these institutions to identify a positive outcome for myself. The abuse even continues in adulthood in the institution of workplace and the social and political climates hostile to my black life all the time.
Yet these reports wonder why these black youth and men become dysfunctional.
@@ConsidertheCrows I raised a male. Yes, we hit bumps in the road along the way but his dad and I gave him wisdom, support and guidance along the way to keep him from falling. We also had additional support at the schools by asking for parent teacher meetings. It takes work to nurture and protect a child and bring them up in the admonition of the Lord. I’m sorry you had a bad experience. Pray Psalm 91 and trust in God to protect you from your enemies. Ask Him for Guidance.
@@ConsidertheCrows wow, is that true? Did you really make yourself this educated in spite of all that? I'm big time impressed.
If we had instant punishment after found guilty, and televised that punishment, boy I bet things would be different.
Thank you!
All he didn't have a daddy . Poor bby.. I didn't neither and I wasn't out robbing and killing
My plan is not your plan. My thought is not your thought. my way is not your way, thus says the Lord
Not one comment about self-responsibility in the entire video? Looking for external blaming...
It is heartbreaking 😥
Heartbreaking
For the murdered man's family?
They do not fall far from the tree, do they? I feel sad for the children. What is wrong w/ blacks?
One thing I've learned is that the media will take a story and twist it so unless you know the full story or it happens to your family please don't give your opinion.
This whole family is trashy criminals.
So true
12:06 😨..LMFAO 😂😂😂😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is really sad.
Even his grandmother been to jail
60% of the prison but only 10% of the population? how is that even possible......This is so sad/tragic!
It's possible by their own bad actions.
Well don't break the law
PRECISELY.
His mama puts mama first.
Thank You Everyone Working In This Field Will Benefit From Watching This Extraordinary Video
“These young men don’t have the familial structure necessary to promote a positive outcome “
Sooooo is it not obvious that these young men fathers were taken from them and many sentenced to mandatory minimums for non violent crimes far lengthier than many who have committed heinous crimes and made a plea.
Guess what, these young men, some who already have young ones of their own, then grow up as well as these young men turn into old men behind bars.
Prisons need to be turned into rehabilitation centers instead of small unhygienic cells with barbaric guards and criminals who teach each other to be better criminals.
Not preparing them once out, many having gotten locked up before graduating, sending them out with no trade, knowledge of financial stability and slapped on regulations that prevent them from making money legally in order to progress as a serving citizen in the community.
They are sent out with what they learned inside.
This is so frustrating.
Nobody can change the cycle for BM EXCEPT BM... Not even the all-powerful WM.
Blaming WM and the Mothers that stayed to raise them trying to do the job of two people, which is NOT the design, does nothing to help them..
@@MarkieMcG. Exactly!! Best comment in this whole comments section 👏🏽
More excuses
Love the grandma lol
I'm confused. Where is the grandmother husband? The mother, she did not think not to have children.
When they said even the grandmother had been to prison I got up off my seat, went to the sink and washed my hands because wow! This boy had no positive role models in this family. 😳
He was doomed from birth
This downward trend happended when we desegrated and started pulling aWay from our ways and our Faith!!
You guys should fix your welfare system
(1)Gangster Rap Music (2) Idolizing Non Realistic Athletes (3) Always trying to make quick hustle instead of a real job. (4) Ignorance
Facts
The single parent family is the reason for the high incarceration rate. Single parent family creates high poverty rate, lower education achievement and higher crime.This is true for all demographics, I grew up in a majority white city and the kids from single parent families did not do as well on average as those from two parent households.
States must have a certain amount of prisoners - typically between 80 and 90 percent of occupancy - or pay companies for empty beds. Talk about bad incentives - a state throws money away if it does not
This is so sad on so many levels
His mom says "Dewite had a better upbringing than we did" she grew up in the crack phase. Wth
Dumb answer
It's like throw the whole family away.
😂 this is hilarious you see how they set the narrative before they speak on the story as if that's all of us😂
You can see the brokenness in his eyes
Mr. Gardner knew better despite his upbringing. NYC, you can see rich and poor. He had the mindset to know there is better.
I agree,not father figures is disappointed for the teen,he feel alone,that's is so sad 😞 prayer for this young man.🙏
I was at Polk for about 3 months in 2016.
Be prepared for gladiator school at Polk youth institution, I've been to that place and it's very bad.
That's so sad
You look older than 30. Which means you were in Polk back when it was poppin. I was there 4 years ago trust me it's just kids playing catch with fruits and shit now. The COs are to be worried about
Hit polk back in 04 on a 8 1/2 yr stretch definitely Gladiator school Back then
@@soonpreddysoon1755 I mean no doubt you gon squabble when you get there but it just ain't like the stories the old heads in the county used to tell me before I got my wake up. I heard in the 90s it was terrible
@@soonpreddysoon1755 i was there 00/01 I went to the hole for assault on a officer barely escape h con and i kept me a lock in a sock,fasho gladiator school,Polk changed my life
WRAL CORRECTION: Disproportionate Number of Young Black Men committing violent and heinous Crimes - "Lost Generation" - A WRAL Documentary
Imagine your own mother doing home burglaries. Mindfuck 🤤
People get shortchanged from start and then have to pay the price for their bad fortune? A lot has gone wrong...
Appropriate outcomes! 😁
Seeing this, no wonder Chaos and poverty are main problem in Africa countries.
Family? Uncle Sam finances single parenthood with Welfare and Section 8 ---just to name a few programs---by DESIGN
If this is true, why did you take the bait??? I mean blacks claim their Gods, Kings, Queens, and the smartest people on the planet. So how come you're at an all time low morally?
They always talking bout it's because of their upbringing which is true to a degree but being stupid plus the laws that NC have designed to incarcerate the blackman also play a major part in it. I wonder why the children with "good upbringing" commit crime. What is their excuse ?
Hold up he robbed a public utilities building while employees cashed their pay checks. What the hell were they is that cashing their paycheck?
This was 20 years ago
Powers to be rather pay 4 them in prison then have them side to side with them in power
Lol are you even thinking about what you’re saying? So it’s wrong to rather a murderer in prison than in power?? Make it make ..... don’t even try to make it make sense. That’s a ridiculous statement
@@epiphannytaylor3211 if u don't understand it. I can't help you lol
All OLDER ADULTS KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO HELP BOYS AND YOUNG MEN CONDUCT BETTER LIVES AND STOP VIOLENT BEHAVIOR BUT NOT VERY MANY OLDER ADULTS INCLUDING THEIR FATHER'S ARE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. ***MANY MEN DON'T CARE ABOUT RAISING BOYS OR RAISING THEM PROPERLY***
I fail to see the debate or the controversy. What if he harmed YOUR family? I'm sorry, there are plenty of people who were deprived of a father figure that don't take this path. I am very sorry about Dwight but he is PRECISELY where he belongs.
Correct!
You can't fix... That's the sentiment. Just go somewhere else.
Because sooo Many Black Men DECIDE To Commit Crimes!
Good to know you could of do better, now just behave in prison. There are people who find it more stable living in prison and do something important. Telling other small time offenders not to make anymore mistakes, work or help other inmates in a positive way.
Also WTF, everyone in his family been in prison.
Is it true that someone in USA was sentenced to 26 years in prison for stealing 5 chocolate chip cookies?
NOT TRUE!!!
She quoted 2pac saying "trapped."
What they don't realize is that their being Wharehoused, your country really hates you, some are up front about it & some just don't want the hassle of being mocked or ridiculed for their racial beliefs......
so we need to arrest poverty and fatherlessness?
No, we need to arrest CRIMINALITY.
That's the homie tank...
social services failed thjis family. they deserve another chance at life
nein in lausd en-el progresso circulation; circumstances met passed by undo two intervals
It was inevitable that he was going to end up messed up. Not excusing his crime. But parents with kids know what I'm talking about. Kids feed off our energy. Yes some kids make bad decisions. But the percentages of those kids make money for the 1% families that runs this country. Prisons need people for the none tax %. FEMA too will need more of all races pretty soon.
I feel bad for him but, no, he does NOT deserve to get out. 😒 He is still in denial and has not yet come to terms with his life sentence yet.
The man he killed did not deserve to die. He can get out of prison when his victim can get out of the grave.
It's absolutely appropriate. They are the most gang members. Everybody knows that.
Want to know something funny? My 18 year old white sister has made all A's through highschool, played soccer, softball, and volleyball, worked part time at Chick-fil-a for 3 years. She's been accepted to 3 different colleges....but not a single scholarship. They give all the scholarships to blacks nowadays. And people still say they don't have the same chance? Excuses excuses
How many blacks do you know that got scholarships?
@@blackmessiah111 Lots and lots. Plenty of blacks from even my senior class had full rides to college.
He never had a chance SMH
Our communities have a lot of work to do. These young men need and deserve tools to help them be successful.
@davey Crockett Exactly! And it has been proven that social programs, welfare, free housing, etc do not work. It only causes more entitlement mentality and encourages black women to have more babies by low caliber men.
Amen!
These young men have to want to be better for such resources to help. I used Job Corps to come up. They let in a lot of hoodlums that interrupt that program continuing their street life, messing it up for the youth who are trying to make it.
These "young men" have to decide for themselves to stop glorifying the idiocy of "thug life," drugs, hating law enforcement, dropping out of school, and the like. They are their own worst enemies.
it's their dad's job and their own jobs to make sure they do better
I was in this prison for 2 years. It's called Polk in butner Nc or (gladiator school) all youthful offenders in that state like I was go there. if your white like me, you have to fight sometimes 3 or 4 Black people at once everyday all-day untill the police break it up. Most guards just watch the fights then after the fights they come in. Very racist blacks. My charge was armed robbery. I stayed in D4 C-POD they call it "the hood" Which was ran by the bloods gang, their set was called shine. After I started winning most the fights when they jumped me they got along with me really well after I broke some noses and jaws. Especially when they found out I was raised by blood gang members when I was in a group home from a small child to a grown man. I'm a country boy rock and roll white boy but I was raised by blood gang members every since I was a toddler in foster care in Charlotte NC. ❤️
Disproportionate???? Noone makes them commit crime. . . .
His mother should be in prison with him.
Males and females don't go to the same prisons.
Lame ignorant commemt
No excuses, obey the law!
Very bad statistics Black let's fight for better future not jail I feel sad for this
poke doc butner nc juv i been through twice never ever wanna go back to jail
Where's the smoke for Dylan Roof, Kyle Rittenhouse, Travis McMichael. and other Lil Darlings...?
Oh lookie! Another moon cricket in prison!
Can’t get a job if your dad never showed you how to act around grown men.
how about a righteous country role model!"How about that!" A corrupt country example! "how about that!"
Smh