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Statistically, there are more African American males who are in special education than there are in regular education. Do you know what type of data our government looks at to determine how much money is needed to build prisons? -- Third grade reading scores! Don't take my word for it, I teach this information from mainstream, standardized textbooks-look it up for yourself.

Young African American Men in the United States Fact Sheet July 2006 reports the following:

• The leading causes of death for all young men ages 15-29, regardless of race or ethnicity, are unintentional injury (e.g. car accident, firearm, or drowning), suicide, and homicide. For young African American men, more deaths are caused by homicide than any other cause.

• Fewer than 8% of young African American men have graduated from college compared to 17% of whites and 35% of Asians.

• The unemployment rate for young African American men is over twice the rate for young white, Hispanic and Asian men.

• African American men are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. The percentage of young African American men in prison is nearly three times that of Hispanic men and nearly seven times that of white men.

The prisoners with children report:

http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/pubs/color.pdf

• African Americans represent 12.7% of the US population,48.2% of American adults in state, and federal prisons and local jails and 42.5% of prisoners under sentence of death.

• One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 live under some form of correctional supervision or control.