invisibility (after glenn ligon)

A) "The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants—and about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants."

 

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B) "African-American men comprise a mere 6% of the American population, but according to the Department of Justice, they make up nearly half of the 2 million inmates in U.S. jails or prisons."

 

= African-American men make up over 10 percent of the entire world's incarcerated inhabitants. These are mind boggling and deeply troubling statistics. "Home of the free"? For whom?

 

referenced in title: Glenn Ligon

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