A new label has been created for people of color who have transcended the effects of an incarceration experience ...ascendivist.
Ascendivists are people like Charles Dutton, Judge Greg Mathis, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Vickie Stringer, Malcolm X, Chef Jeff Henderson, Robert Maupin (Iceberg Slim) Beck and Ralph Waldo "Petey" Green.
They went through the Prison Industrial Complex and came out the other side. They had a "transformational moment" which triggered a permanent change in their thoughts and behavior. The events which follow that event are the model for ascendivists. Ascendivism is a thought process which has not been tracked, monitored or researched like its antithesis, recidivism.
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