Requiem for Ordinary Black Men
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by Charles Crable
Price: $24.95
Book Website: http://www.ordinaryblackmen.com
378 Pages, Hardback, 6 x 9
ISBN-10: 0-9790155-0-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-9790155-0-2
Young black American men are experiencing a serious modern day crisis. The antebellum, the Emmitt Till case, and countless civil rights atrocities are largely after-the-fact public musings. Today, however, the privatization of the prison system sanctioned by legislatures, e.g., the Corrections Corporation of America and others, is very quietly yet deliberately placing young black men from diverse backgrounds into state and federal prisons. Many are decent young men from good families having been betrayed by historical constructs, familial maladies, and maniacal cultural neurosis, and their own failure of personal responsibility. Some fall for the subterfuge of the street only to be unceremoniously warehoused under revised sentencing guidelines for most of their ruined lives. Three strikes keeps many incarcerated for life, while others succumb to premature death by drugs or violence. The African-American family shares a great degree of responsibility in all this allowing drug use, gang influence, and fatherless households to permeate our communities, while the rappers tell our children that it's cool to be a convicted felon.
About The Author
At six months old, Charles Crable IV (Carl Graves) was kidnapped by his mother's family from his father's well-educated, middle class lineage in Ohio. While a teenager, Charles was relocated to Los Angeles with his mother before meeting his father at age twenty-one. He became a real estate broker working with the federal government and raised a family. A graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in History, Crable witnessed pervasive dysfunction among many African-American families in the course of his profession. He realized something had to be done to keep good kids, influenced by street/gang culture and subject to over-zealous legislatures, out of prison. "Our young men must be taught to stand for something before falling for anything." This journey is based upon first-hand experiences and interviews conducted by the author.
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This is a must read for most American adolescents and ALL young black men and their families.
Customer Reviews
 | Kathryn Plasse from North Providence , RI | | | This is an excellent, well written and entertaining book that all families need to read. |
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