Proposal

I am choosing to do my paper on topic 3. "According to the U.S. Justice Department, in 2003 about 10.4 percent of all African American men between age 25 to 29 were incarcerated, as compared to 2.4 percent of Hispanic men and 1.2 percent of Non-Hispanic White men." I am interested to know why this is a trend. Every few years an incident occurs in the African American community where a black man is either handled with harshness by the law, or shot/beaten to death by a policeman. How many times have we viewed secret tapes, or heard stories about police man unitedly jumping a black man? In 1991 it was Rodney King; 1992 it was Malice Green, In 2009 it was Ronnie Holloway; In 2010, it was Travon Martin; In 2012, it was Zachary King. Michelle Alexander stated in one of her well known presentations that there are "more black men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began" if this is true, why is that? Are black men unfairly targeted by law enforcement? Is skin color being used as the deciding factor to determine how dangerous a criminal could be? It is hard to prosper in life, when one is already looked down upon. As the cliche goes "knowledge is power." This topic is important to the study of cultural diversity because it needs to reach the ears of young Americans. We need to educate ourselves about our country, and become aware of what goes on in the justice system. With this paper I hope to find out that the high trend of incarcerated african american males is not true, although history does show that african american males have been victims of racial profiling. If this is not a case of racial profiling, what is the true reasoning behind this