Denzel Washington: Don't Blame The Prison System, 'It Starts At The Home'

[THIRDSUPREME]

 

[Kai]

Prisons are for profit, publicly traded companies who's priorities are to make as much profit for their shareholders by having prisons and full as possible, but it's not the prison industrial complex's fault?????

You can say that a good home environment lessens the risk of going to prison without absolving prisons and America of systemic racism.

That shit sounds like some shit pale demons want you to believe so you don't call out their bullshit. Like it's not the centuries old history of racism or the 13th amendment that America has the highest rate of incarceration of any country, no it's you niggas and your degenerate families' fault

I hate these simply ass, pass the buck comments that lack any sociological and historical frameworks. It's insulting to our intelligence

 

[CapitalB]

He is 100% correct and it's time black people admit it

Both things can be true...obviously everything starts at home, but we don't need to deny systemic racism.

THAT DESTROYS THE HOME in the first damn place..

white people blow up niggas houses and in come this muthafucka WHO PLAYED MALCOLM X talkin bout “well.. if niggas didnt have blown up houses theyd be alright..”

d’uh muthafucka! but WHY ARE OUR HOMES BLOWN UP!?! smmfh

my head hurts..

bye yall. bout to eat another plate and take a nap shit!

 

[jono]

He's right.

 

[AZTG]

Not gonna really go into it, but it doesnt start home. Lets say a baby is born today, in 2017. The system has been trying to fuck that babies parents and destroy their sense of right of wrong for all of their lives. Now in some cases the system succeeds and in other cases it does not. In a case where it succeeds, the destruction of the baby born in 2017 started way before he or she was born into the "home"

 

[farris2k1]

He is 100% correct and it's time black people admit it

Both things can be true...obviously everything starts at home, but we don't need to deny systemic racism.

This^^

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

Denzel aint say that he wasnt himself

 

[farris2k1]

On a diff note his new movie looks kinda wack, this is his only movie thats came out in forever that i have zero interest in

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

I partially agree with what he saying. Regardless of how we raise our kids, we're still getting set up, drugs planted on us, fake rape allegations by white bitches that can't accept they were a hit and run. Shit just being black gets us locked up so how is the system not atleast partially to blame?

 

[Max.]

On a diff note his new movie looks kinda wack, this is his only movie thats came out in forever that i have zero interest in

It was boring

 

[playmaker88]

There is alot of truth to it.

The breakdown of the family starts with one choices and actions thats undeniable

 

[farris2k1]

On a diff note his new movie looks kinda wack, this is his only movie thats came out in forever that i have zero interest in

It was boring

Yea thats the 1st thing that i thought when i seen the previews

 

[semi-auto-mato]

He didnt go into detail and never said the system didnt have anything to do with it. At some point we have to look at ourselves. The system is fucked up. We all know that but so is our family structure. No one forced me to do the shit I did. I banged on my own. Never had drugs planted on me. They were all mine.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen. We all know it does. For those dudes we gotta stand up and point out the injustices. For niggas like me I knew the risk. I was fucked up. I been with the same chick since I was 14. We had plans for what to do when the system came knocking. She gave me 4 kids. After My daughter she made it clear that she didn't want to carry no kids into a prison to spend time with their dad. My choices were keep running the streets or be a father and a husband. I went with family but often u hear niggas say they married to the streets. That nigga is partly to blame. Having kids and trying raise them from a cell helps us none.

Start with the man in the mirror

 

[KnowReasonForPeace]

He didnt go into detail and never said the system didnt have anything to do with it. At some point we have to look at ourselves. The system is fucked up. We all know that but so is our family structure. No one forced me to do the shit I did. I banged on my own. Never had drugs planted on me. They were all mine.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen. We all know it does. For those dudes we gotta stand up and point out the injustices. For niggas like me I knew the risk. I was fucked up. I been with the same chick since I was 14. We had plans for what to do when the system came knocking. She gave me 4 kids. After My daughter she made it clear that she didn't want to carry no kids into a prison to spend time with their dad. My choices were keep running the streets or be a father and a husband. I went with family but often u hear niggas say they married to the streets. That nigga is partly to blame. Having kids and trying raise them from a cell helps us none.

Start with the man in the mirror

Its frowned upon to grow up and be an adult here on the IC. You aint real lol

 

[optimistic]

Yeah Rampart was started because of fatherless niggas

States make deals guaranteeing prisons maintain a certain amount of inmates because niggas can't behave at home

Sentencing is disproportionately harsher for people of color because...

 

[Ol Jay's]

Prisons are for profit, publicly traded companies who's priorities are to make as much profit for their shareholders by having prisons and full as possible, but it's not the prison industrial complex's fault?????

did they decide to profit off of what was already happening (blacks committing crimes and getting arrested at high rates)?

 

[jono]

Yeah Rampart was started because of fatherless niggas

States make deals guaranteeing prisons maintain a certain amount of inmates because niggas can't behave at home

Sentencing is disproportionately harsher for people of color because...

None of that shit effects you unless you break the law.

That's routinely black folks problem. Once we decided a thing is unfair then whatever happens is happening because of the unfairness instead of because of individual behaviors.

The number of truly innocent people in jail is negligible, most of those niggas really broke the law.

Instead of trying to educate people on how to survive without breaking the law, we typically complain about the law, complain about the courts, complain about the cops, complain about shit we have no immediate control over.

And the one thing we do have immediate control over, we surrender that control to continue the victim narrative.

Denzel's absolutely right. If you don't raise your kid to have good behaviors, to follow the laws, and to make good decisions you are almost guaranteeing they will end up in jail.

 

[7figz]

Yeah Rampart was started because of fatherless niggas

States make deals guaranteeing prisons maintain a certain amount of inmates because niggas can't behave at home

Sentencing is disproportionately harsher for people of color because...

None of that shit effects you unless you break the law.

That's routinely black folks problem. Once we decided a thing is unfair then whatever happens is happening because of the unfairness instead of because of individual behaviors.

The number of truly innocent people in jail is negligible, most of those niggas really broke the law.

Instead of trying to educate people on how to survive without breaking the law, we typically complain about the law, complain about the courts, complain about the cops, complain about shit we have no immediate control over.

And the one thing we do have immediate control over, we surrender that control to continue the victim narrative.

Denzel's absolutely right. If you don't raise your kid to have good behaviors, to follow the laws, and to make good decisions you are almost guaranteeing they will end up in jail.

I'm late. Is this comment sarcasm / serious ?

 

[a.mann]

Yeah Rampart was started because of fatherless niggas

States make deals guaranteeing prisons maintain a certain amount of inmates because niggas can't behave at home

Sentencing is disproportionately harsher for people of color because...

None of that shit effects you unless you break the law.

That's routinely black folks problem. Once we decided a thing is unfair then whatever happens is happening because of the unfairness instead of because of individual behaviors.

The number of truly innocent people in jail is negligible, most of those niggas really broke the law.

Instead of trying to educate people on how to survive without breaking the law, we typically complain about the law, complain about the courts, complain about the cops, complain about shit we have no immediate control over.

And the one thing we do have immediate control over, we surrender that control to continue the victim narrative.

Denzel's absolutely right. If you don't raise your kid to have good behaviors, to follow the laws, and to make good decisions you are almost guaranteeing they will end up in jail.

All this maybe true

But the simply fact is people, regardless of the "righteousness" of their upbringing will fuck up and just plain make stupid horrible decisions including breaking the law

No one will argue that they shouldn't be held accountable for wrongdoing and sentence for it

But the major problem is that black people are disproportionately sentenced at a higher rate to longer jail/prison time than white people when they break the very same laws.

edit:

I'll add a perfect example would be how they are calling the heroin epidemic that's tearing apart these low income white neighborhoods a "healthcare" problem, but called the crack epidemic, which fucked up the black community a criminal problem

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

parents do u know where your children are rn?