How and why america has incarcerated so many of its citizens, particularly its african-american citizens

In the history of the United States there have been very marked stages of racism that have dissipated over the years. Civil rights were signed, equality and equity was arriving, although being a man of African descent in the United States is seen as synonymous with being a danger for the common imagination. Many citizens are imprisoned for their crimes, many times Afro-descendants are imprisoned because their environments or ghettos have violent tendencies due to statistics or police reports. The answer is more complex than it seems. Much depends on how the man of African descent is  looked today and how the law sees it in a way not as egalitarian as it would be with other more conservative ethnic groups.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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