“It’s unfortunate that we make such easy work for them”
Maybe I should give him a pass on the above, because the rest of it is so good, but I don’t at all like the message being implied above - that there is some significant group of people - them (white men I guess)- that want to have young black men in prison, just because, and therefore when young black men commit crimes it makes it “easy work for them”.
At best he’s just gratuitously as a throwaway line aimed at getting a mostly brainwashed racism-is-everywhere audience to hear the rest of his message, and at worst he also actually believes that ... but either way it reinforces that fallacy, so I don’t like it.
I believe you are misreading what he is saying.
My take was, "We make it easy to go to jail because we do not have good fathers to show the way. You start with crimes and pretty soon you are in the system".
ie. You make it easy to be in jail because you do crimes.