Thursday, July 2, 2015

College or Prison



In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?”

Click on the link  College or Prison or you can go to ted talk and search for, "How we're priming some kids for college and others for prison."
This video should help you understand more of the inequality. Continue reading and educating yourself because that is the only way to change.
-Nafiinu