Deserved Denial or Disenfranchisement?

Been really struggling with this one...
Black men being encarcerated and convicted of felonies at abnormally higher rates than any other demographic coupled with the fact that felony convictions remove citizens from the electorate,
BEGS the question...
Does this constitute a deserved denial of rights to those unable to abide by societal law OR is it a manifestation of systematic disenfranchisement?

The struggle comes from the fact that each side to the argument represents compelling rationale. Regardless of black felony conviction rates being so strongly linked to disenfranchisement, anyone able to make the leap of faith that racism no longer exists will see no such rationale. Maybe in their world, there is no black... only good and bad, criminal and upstanding citizen.
God can take my faith there...
Until then, I can't help but beg the question.

the quest for diplomacy (intro)

i want to be a diplomat...
point blank, i'd enjoy nothing more than being an advocate working on the side of peaceful efforts toward the common good.
if there's anything that i've learned from the emotional roller coaster of the american economy lately it's that there's a connected disarray in the united front of the EU... oh yeah and a more honest look at, again, financial crisis emotions in the far east.
this current situation is only an example, especially in the US. any way you slice it, we're not living in some silo that prior generations may have been able to. i believe that the most important skillset that anyone can have is that of being able to communicate with people to attain progress for a wide range of stakeholders. even what we are in the midst of currently may not be the most consequential circumstance that can arise from the interconnectedness that we share. over the next few decades, we're going to face many more challenges.
it's time to engage.