im a criminal so are you

The main idea  of this article says "in this country, we force millions of people who are largely black and brown into a permanent second class status, simply because they once committed a crime." i agree with this statement because that's what us Americans do, we think that if someone has been convicted of a crime that, that person should be watched all the time or treated a little different. Something that i don't agree with is that every criminal should have the same rights as us. It should be depending on the crime that was committed. Say if someone got arrested for smoking pot at the age of 17 and got arrested or caught, then when they get out and they are around the age 30 or 40 they still are getting the consequences of making that one mistake when they were a teenager, I don't agree with that. I think if the crime is something serious like someone being a rapist they still should have an opportunity to get a job but maybe not a job around kids, but they still have the right to be alive, and have a life because they did and served their time in prison for the crime they committed. I believe that the people in this society do look down to criminals just because they have a record, but people need to keep it real because no matter if they know it or not, everyone one time in their life has committed a crime, no matter how big or small it is, but that doesn't give anyone the right to look at someone like they as less of a person, just think that crime you committed is still a crime, you just didn't get caught for it.