Buy Now: Open Never Again Car Shirt
a system in our country and a culture that is very unforgiving,” Korzenik replied. “It is fine that there are consequences for bad actions. Some of those can rightfully include incarceration, but what’s not fine is when someone has done their time, paid their dues, that they are forever ever branded as less than a full citizen, as less than a full human being, and denied the Open Never Again Car Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this opportunity to become contributing members of society.” “Why do you feel that we’ve made it so much more difficult for these individuals to get jobs and to reenter back into society?” the pastor followed up. “The justice system has overly relied on incarceration, and then we live in a society that has changed over time. The typical business owners may have had no interaction with people with criminal records, and so they’re the ‘others,’” Krozenik explained. “Then there’s a lot of fear of legal liability – it’s technically called negligent hiring liability – if you hire someone with a criminal record. And there are answers to all of these, but we’ve also had, until recently, just a surplus of labor in this country, so we never had to worry about it. There was never a need to dig deeper into our population from a business perspective. And that’s changing, but it’s left us in a [detrimental] position. And if I may give you the numbers?” “Absolutely, please.” “Nineteen million Americans have a felony conviction, and that includes one-in-three black men in America.” “Wow.” “And this has become an incredible barrier to being able to participate in society, taking care of your family, and it causes intergenerational poverty.” “When you say one-in three-African American males—and then the fact that it’s creating generational poverty, two things that we’re trying to alleviate … Here at Project H.O.O.D, we want to fix that problem. How do we go about fixing that issue?” the pastor asked. “It has to start with the business community. They have to become open to this, and not just open in an easy-to-say way, ‘Oh,
No comments:
Post a Comment