The many struggles of an african american male--By August H Mallory

I write this story not just for myself, but for the many african maerican men who has had to face the prejudice and discrimination handed down to them from a very ruthless corrupt system of government and in our society. african american men are the biggest targets of violence in america. we face hatred and violence even by our own people. and for many years I have often wondered why. I learned later on in life why we as african americans in general are hated by each other. I learned about a letter that was written by a plantation owner in the 18th century known as william lynch. in his letter william gives details as to how his plan of oppression and control. will turn african americans against one another.
it is now 400 hundred years later and everything that william lynch predicted in his letter has come to pass. african americans are now killing one another at record levels. american society makes it hard for many african american men to obtain employment, therefore their only option to survival is the drug trade. and involvement in prostituion, we now live in the 21st Century and although things have changed somewhat there is still many problems. and african americans are still at risk of being left behind. as I travel across america, I still see that many, many african american men do not have employment. homelessness is still at a record high for african american men. therefore we are turning to violent crime. and this means assaults and rapes of our own people, we are taking out our anger out on our own people instead of the system that put us in this situation. we are killing each other. taking and stealing and shooting each other. in the african american community we talk about getting involved with churches and sunday school, and we try to get our children involved but this barely has any impact on our children. african american children are still growing up with hate and violence inside of them. there are more african american men with a history of violence than any ethnic group in america. and the prison incarceration rate is far higher than any ethnic group in america. we have a hardtime maintaining employment' the very reason we are not taught disipline, we are not taught how to be committed to a certain cause. the william lynch letter is the main reason today that african americans both men and womenm are having to struggle in society.