The United States has about 5 percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Resignation and nihilism are an epidemic among young black people. Life is lived and extinguished daily under the mark of violence and drugs, in the relentless pursuit of money and the battle to survive. Of the nearly 2.2 million prisoners in the US, almost 40 percent are black. Nowhere is structural racism more evident than in the US prison system. Black people are five times more likely to end up behind bars than white people are.
