The New Jim Crow

In our color blind society, there are more black men in prison than there were enslaved in 1850.  When you include those that are incarcerated into unemployment figures, you'll get 80% and 90% unemployment within the black community

Really things have not changed, only the labels have changed, so that discrimination and segregation can be legal and justified.

For anyone interested in struggles of people in USA, I highly recommend Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness:

* http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/