This interview originally aired on May 31, 2017.
When Trump and his administration talk about crime and imprisonment in the black community, they do so without historical context. They are fueling racist discourse by attacking some of these staggering statistics. More than 60 percent of people incarcerated today are people of color. Black men are nearly six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men, and Hispanic men are more than twice as likely. For black men in their 30s, one in ten are in jail or prison on any given day. The imprisonment rate for African American women is more than twice that of white women. Currently, the United States has more than two million people in prison. This represents a 500 percent increase over the past 40 years. This is the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Mariame Kaba is the founder of the NIA Project and co-organizer of Survived and Punished. She's also one of the sharpest people on Twitter, where her handle is @prisonculture.
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