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07/21/2004:

"African Americans suffer Abu Ghraib treatment in America"

In terms of African American history in this country it's a "been there, done that," sort of approach to these controversial topics dominating much of the media coverage.

African American men disproportionately fill prison facilities in the United States, not abroad in a foreign setting obscure to most Americans, but in our own prisons. For many years men like journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal have written prison memoirs in which they describe the ways that men are physically, mentally, and morally broken down by the prison system, and their lives can be endangered more by the prison atmosphere than by life on the roughest city streets. Little in the way of national outrage has been mustered over these accounts.

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