Is Trump a Victim of the Prison-Industrial Complex?

By: Johnette Eggert

For many years, black Americans have been disproportionately impacted by the prison system.

Black Americans have been given massive sentences in prison while white Americans received a much shorter sentence for a similar crime. These disparities have broken up families and caused incredible damage within black communities.

Black Americans have experienced the cruelty of the criminal justice system in a way that white Americans have found it difficult to understand.

But now, with what is happening to Donald Trump, more white Americans are understanding how the system is biased, how the deck can be stacked against you, and how men are destroyed by this system.

To secure a guilty verdict against Trump, the system has created new crimes from thin air, thrown out precedent, and found biased judges to stack the deck against Trump.

Regardless of how you feel about Trump, what is happening to him is disgusting. If they can do it to Trump, they will do it to any leader who does not follow orders in lockstep from corporate special interests. Is this the type of America we want to live in?

This is why polls are showing an increase in black and minority support for Trump, not because his conviction is “cool” or anything like that. But because they are seeing Trump be railroaded by the unjust prison-industrial complex, and that tells them that Trump despite his faults may be on the right track.

Trump’s trials are opening the eyes of white Americans on the nature of the prison-industrial complex and corrupt criminal justice system. This is a good thing because it means that there will be more Americans demanding justice and equality across the political divide.