top of page

Truth, The Real Numbers

Pardon the cut off of the chart below however the important information for you to observe is present. While Indigenious people (what the U.S. has reclassified as Black people in order to keep a slave class population) represent 13% of the United States population they make up 39% of the prison popultaion while White people who make up 64% of the U.S. population account for 40% of the priosn population. Lets look at that from an easier perspective. lets say we have 100 Indigenous and White people incarcerated, the Indigenous will make up 13 of that 100 and the Whites 64 people of that 100. However out of those 13 Indegious people 5.07 are incarcerated while out of the 64 White people, 25.6 are incarecerated. That leaves 7.93 Indigenous people to pull the weight for all of their people and 38.4 Whites to pull for their people on the outside. Now that is a huge disparity! You may say, well we can't do anything about the numbers, but we can because we know that Indigenous men and women are being locked up are far higher rates than any other race of people on the planet by being racially profiled not only by white policy enforcers (police) but Indigenous ones as well. We know that studies show that while Indigenous men and women are being detained at higher rates than all other ethnicities that there isn't an influx in criminal activity within the communities of POC's. We can easily stop blatent discrimination in the U.S. by creating laws that stop the targeting of Indigenous people for prejudicial gratification and profit. The prison industrial complex is a mega money powerhouse that pads many polticians pockets, they aren't looking to create prision nor sentence reform because to do so will be stopping a means for them to assertain wealth. We must make intelligent choices and keep our votes when faced with double crossing politicans that don't keep their words by supporting policies that don't benefit the community at large. If your vote put them in then surely your vote can take them out and we must always remember our responsibility to the land, we hold the highest office there ever was created and that is the office of "We the People" it never sought to include the Indigenous man and woman so now it is time that we write oursleves truthfully into history and protray our efforts with pride and dignity. Race is a governmental construct used to keep people divided it's time to abolish that construct and abolish all that ills our planet. and work together against those who seek to profit off of our labour and our pain.

bottom of page