Translation: "A black man is familiar with freedom in America. Here it is, uncle Tom's cabin."
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I'm in my 40s and have met, I don't know, at least several hundred people over my lifetime more than once. At least as far as I know none of them has been in actual prison. Few have spent their night on the jail when getting too drunk (and obviously done some stupid shit while wasted) and police have "offered" them a bed to sober up but that's it.
Obviously not in the US. I can't even imagine society where nearly every other male you encounter would've been in prison at some point.
Same, except I am in the US. I suspect this is highly stratified by class, such that either nobody you know has been arrested or everybody you know has been arrested.
White male who grew up in Idaho here.
I have been arrested on several occasions and so have a number of my friends.
I would not consider myself poor or lower class either. Id assume your theory holds some weight, but I'd also assume it follows a lot of trends we wouldn't expect as well.