Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.
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Fifty percent of black men have been arrested. This is an appalling stat if you contemplate it. It is deplorable that we allow this to continue. Our failure to examine why this occurs strikes at the soul of our nation. Allow me to submit to you that we do not ignore this stat, but we embrace it because it feeds into the myth that we have told ourselves |