It is sad that we live in America, but yet still, racism defines our country. It is incredible that we knowingly have over 2 million people that are incarcerated, and yet we are doing nothing to help out that quarter of a million that gets out annually. We have a quarter of a million individuals that are set free every year and they have nowhere to go. They have no means of employment opportunities, especially if they are black. Why have we not came up with an organization that specializes in finding these individuals, which some just come from poverty and are non-violent offenders with no means to an end, except for criminal work? Why are we not finding organizations that offer work to individuals under these circumstances?
Obviously, we are not going to put sex offenders in a school system or violent offenders anywhere near children but how about finding other work in businesses where adults need janitors, waiters, busboys, dishwashers and don’t look into criminal records in order to guarantee employement? We want these people off the streets but we don’t give them an opportunity to do better. We won’t employ them. We judge them based on their criminal past. How about organizing a center that allows for a criminal record in order to help these people do better for themselves instead of just going back into the system because doing criminal things is the only way they can survive to make money?
This is America. We are the land of the brave and the free. We are strong and we know that helping underpriviledged adults and allowing them to enter out workforce, even if it means starting from the bottom up gives everybody an equal opportunity to succeed.
Kim Kardashian recently spoke out about this. She is now trying to include employment opportunities for felons, or just people with criminal records to allow them to work for her in order for them to stand an equal chance. We don’t all come from the same environment. We definitely don’t all come from Kim’s privilege, I know I don’t. However, I had parents who guided me whether I liked it or not (because they were terribly strict), but they guided me in a direction that was non-criminal. If we actually took the time to get to know the individuals and show a form of compassion and empathy, possibly something they have never experienced, it could change a life…One life at a time. See attached tag for Kim and her advocating for incarcerated felons. https://www.celebitchy.com/609226/kim_kardashian_announced_plans_to_begin_hiring_formerly_incarcerated_felons/
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