Stress the facts that: there are more African Americans incarcerated today than enslaved (compared to 1850), more African Americans disenfranchised as ex-criminals than in 1870, A black child is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born into slavery, and a large percentage of African American men are labeled criminals for life (they are barred from juries, legally discriminated against in employment, and denied the right to education). vote, e