User:Nobleman614

I am working at building a database of various interests of American-African Males in the United States. Issues pertaining to Community, Psychology, Urban lifestyles, Relationships, and last but not least a mission statement clearly noting what I feel should be the main goal of all American Africans.

As a member of the American African community, I feel that it has become necessary to compile a database that may be useful to thos individuals that actively seek the light.

In today's society, the place of the American African Male has become a prison cell. society has tagged so many young men with felonies and other convictions, effectively rendering them obsolete. By obselete I mean that they are of no significant value to society. This approach, has served ulterior motives since it's inception in the late 1960's with Nixon's Drug enforcement act, as well as numerous ratifications since.

Background: Throughout the turbulant 1960's in America, many changes were underway, the civil rights movement was in full swing in almost every major city in the U.S. Communism was rearing its's ugly head and threatening American shores, by way of Cuba, namely Fidel Castro and his regime. The result came to be known as the Cuban Missle Crisis, an incident near the end of the cold war, where the USSR and the USA were in an arms race to determine which power country was indeed the leader of the freeworld.

The fundalmentalists, argues that it's a free world and that people are able to do as they please. The middle class was in an uproar. American Africans had been given the right to be, without government sanctioned restrictions relating to public restrooms, watering fountains, businesses and swimming pools. While the majority were absolutely appauled at the idea of sharing a seat with an American African on the bus or sitting next to and American African Man at the lunch counter. There was a significant number of people that were hoping that the issue f race would become a thing of the past. unfortunately for us this group of people were the declared misfits of society, avid drug users, and practitioners of promiscuity. As such they were written off by the majority as outcasts.

With the inception of Richard Nixon into office, everything would change. Needing to quash anti-war sentiment, Nixon's administration put into effect a drug code that changed the classification of certain drugs and each state set their own set of penal standards. The effects of this change are still felt today. Seeing a potential source of revenue within the new drug code prisons began to become private and were being constructed at a rate never before seen. The majority of the people scheduled to be incarcerated were American African males, there dismal earning average and disadvantaged education backgrounds made them likely subjects for this new type of punishment. Along with those A.A.M. (American African Males) the sub-culure mentioned before would also become the target of this political movement.

Within a few short years the climate within the AAM community had changed drastically. More AAM were in the penial system than ever before. The fallout was to become something similar to a cultural revolution.