But that's true only for a relative few. When you're confronted by the police, very few - either the foolish or the very brave - will refuse consent when confronted by the police.
— Michelle Alexander, 13th Tagged: Oppression, racism, BLM “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black [people]. He quotes another: “The 13th Amendment says slavery is still legal. Because the only way to progress out of this situation—mass incarceration and criminalization—is a revolution in thought. Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney. But cost was beside the point. The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born.
— Unknown Official of the Nixon Administration, 13th Tagged: Oppression, racism, War on Drugs, Hippie, Marijuana, Drugs “So many aspects of the old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon. History is not accidental.
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. Michelle Alexander Stop Police Supreme Court Court I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be responding to poor folks of color and a consensus in support of basic human rights for all.
Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race. After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations. I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. : A Review of Netflix’s Enola Holmes, Preachers, Murderers and A Haunting Western Town: A Review of Netflix’s The Devil All the Time, First Look at Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ – Reviewing the Trailer. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists. With Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales. Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s. Reviewing The Neighbourhood’s ”Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones” – Is This All the Band Has Got in Store? Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world. Think about that.”, “People say all the time, ‘well, I don’t understand how people could have tolerated slavery?’ ‘How could they have made peace with that?’ ‘How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that?’ ‘That’s so crazy, if I was living at that time I would never have tolerated anything like that.’, “But if you dismiss black complaints of mistreatment by police as being completely rooted in our modern context, then you’re missing then point completely. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon. And so it seems that in America we haven’t so …
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There has been an outpouring of anger and concern because of the actions of George Zimmerman, a private citizen who profiled a young boy and pursued him and tried to confront him, perhaps. The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities, to conduct 'stop and frisk' operations. Murders, Mysteries and Sherlock Holmes’ Little Sister? Your email address will not be published. The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, 'get tough' mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us. “Systems of oppression are durable, and they tend to reinvent themselves.”, “Right now, we now have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in 1850s.”, “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black [people]. King, people forget, was not this beloved figure that everybody put on a pedestal. Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting its long-standing egalitarian culture and spirit of communitarianism - a spirit that extends to its prisons. In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame. However, DuVernay focuses her film on the Prison Industrial Complex, and the mass incarceration of African-Americans seen in the United States prison system. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities.”, Unknown Official of the Nixon Administration, “So many aspects of the old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon. Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard. The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress. In her documentary, 13th, Ava DuVernay cites the wording of the 13th amendment, which outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude "except as a punishment for … Murders, Mysteries and Sherlock Holmes' Little Sister? And to not reckon with that is to shut off solutions.”, “In many ways, the so-called war on drugs was a war on communities of color, a war on black communities, a war on latino communities.”, “History is not just stuff that happens by accident. During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. These men are part of a growing undercaste - not class, caste - a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status. I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States. People have a false understanding of what our legal system is like - how it works/operates - from shows like 'Law and Order,' which suggest that lawyers appear on demand and do a tremendous amount of investigation and background research. ― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness tags: brown-v-board , civil-rights-movement , law-and-order , racism , southern-governors You come out of prison, and where are you expected to go? Della is a junior in High School who hopes to study International Business in college and enjoys fighting for what she believes in.
: A Review of Netflix's Enola Holmes, Preachers, Murderers and A Haunting Western Town: A Review of Netflix's The Devil All the Time, First Look at Denis Villeneuve's ‘Dune’ - Reviewing the Trailer, Making Sense of "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", "Work It" Will Make You Laugh As You Bop Along. But what George Zimmerman did is no different than what police officers do every day as a matter of standard operating procedure.