More African - American MEN are in prison/jail than enslaved in the 1850 - before the Civil War began. Micheal Alexander. A quote from Micheal Moore in his book “Stupid White men” - “It does not take much to figure out why the drug of choice in the white community is treated with such leniency than the drug that constitutes the only afforddable high in poor BLACK and HISPANIC communities. For 8 years there has been an aggressive move to LOCK UP as many minorities as possible. “ - Micheal Moore.