may be structural reasons for the amount of black men being incarcerated in the US.

I appreciate your honesty and realization that you may not know. You do say some keywords in that quoted phrase "may be".

Yes, it may be. Yet it is being pushed as though it IS.

I've started checking my peripheral vision instead of looking just where the media and those that seem to be intentionally fomenting division want us to look.

I started thinking about many SYMPTOMS not just one. I started asking "are there other things besides race that could explain all of these symptoms?"

I truly believe culture is more likely a culprit than RACISM. That is not to state there is no racism. It is there. It is getting worse thanks to the mainstream media and movements such as black lives matter than I have EVER seen it in my life time.

I view the war on drugs as a farce and failure. Unless the goal is to fill our prisons with more slaves.

I view the war on terror as a farce and failure. Namely, because terrorism is being normalized and occurring so regularly now that such a war can only be deemed as a failure if the goal was to actually decrease/eliminate terrorism.

I view the modern push for racism and emphasis on Black Lives Matter as a faiure simply because they are hurting and increasing what they claim to be fighting just like the war on terror, and the war on drugs.

I don't blame this on the people. I blame it on a couple of thins. 1) Our government. 2) Education system dumbing down and removal of critical thinking and problem solving from education. 3) The corporate controlled mainstream media that COULD deescalate issues instead choosing to over emphasize and increase issues. If it bleeds it leads.

The emphasis on racism today I see as political and media created.

Not even a decade ago I'd say racism was at an all time low in our country and continuing to be that way.

Now it is the most racist I've ever seen and currently it is more targeted at white people than any other. That is a recent change. Some people even are so ignorant that they claim you can't be racist if your target is white. That shows how clueless they are about what racism actually means.

I don't think the problems are JUST culture, or JUST race. We have a lot of problems. Yet the media and corrupt politicians seem to be intentionally creating division among the citizenry rather than attempting to mend it.