nearly 1 out of 3 black men, however, compared to 100 americans, 1 in 3 will spend time in prison during their lifetime. 1/3 black americans are ten times more likely than their white counterparts to be jailed for the same drug-related crimes! this is awful. statistics such as this not only lead to outrage, but they have led today s specialists to a bold conclusion that the so-called war on drugs is literally a comparison to slavery and jim crow and the destructive impact it has, not only to those incarcerated but to those who live in black communities to which we then export prison culture back into. and she says it is that bad even in the age of the pride of a