It spoke of big news for the 5,000-person burg in West Texas: a big drug bust that landed a sizable portion of the town’s black community behind bars. Washington for dinner during one of the evenings they were here in town. Michelle Alexander was on the Colbert Report on Tuesday night.
MW. Fred Luter notwithstanding, Rev. I’ll give you a copy of the book — autographed by the author, no less — free of charge. He is paying for the books out of his own pocket. As this Morning Edition article makes clear, Fred Luter isn’t just a prominent African-American preacher; he’s a transformational figure who stuck with his New Orleans congregation when the sanctuary washed away with Hurricane Katrina.
It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Crime rates have been falling across America and, if present trends continue, the safe streets we enjoyed in the 1950s will soon return. You get the impression that Lane, like most moderate liberals, has formed his conclusions about crime and punishment after reading a single book, in Lane’s case Franklin Zimring’s The City That Became Safe. And many were troubled by a recent broadcast on Land’s radio program in which he said President Obama and black leaders were using the death of Trayvon Martin for political purposes. And when they are set “free” after doing their time, black men enter a legal purgatory where the right to vote, work, go to school or rent an apartment can be legally denied. The goal is to end this racial-caste system coined as, The New Jim Crow. “It’s as historic a moment as Southern Baptists have had,” Land says, “because the president of SBC is not just an honorific — it is a position of real power.”. Lane sees mass incarceration as a curious paradox. . In his battle against the original Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, in a sense, did what Alexander seeks to do: pour sunlight on an onerous condition that exists just beyond the periphery of most Americans’ sight. Alexander promulgated an explosive argument. The Southern Baptist Convention is expected to elect its first black president on Tuesday: Fred Luter, a former street preacher who turned a dying New Orleans church into a powerhouse. But there is another side to the story embodied in the passionate minority report filed by Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. “The war on drugs,” Alexander states, “was part of a grand Republican Party strategy, known as the Southern Strategy, of using racially coded get-tough appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and working-class whites, particularly in the South, who were resentful of, anxious about, threatened by many of the gains of African-Americans in the civil rights movement.”, The “wave of punitiveness” and get-tough policies that followed the declaration of the war on drugs had an incredible impact on communities of color.
“I grew up in the ‘hood, and my mom worked two or three jobs. Luter loves these guys, even as he laments key features of their lifestyle.
It’s too bad we had to lock up 2.3 million people to “take a bite out of crime”, he seems to say, but that’s the way the corn bread crumbles. The speaker, Brian Jones, is a teacher, actor, and activist. He notes that if he’s elected, it will be because white Baptists voted for him. All three live in New York and all three are progressive activists. Richard Land has renounced his denomination’s support for Old Jim Crow segregation and the overt commitment to white supremacy that was part of that package. Hayden, a reformed criminal with a record as long as your arm, understands the dynamics of what Michelle Alexander calls “the New Jim Crow” from the inside out. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.co.uk. Stuntz and Kennedy are white male academics who see mass incarceration and the war on drugs as unmitigated disasters. Bean recalled his reactions to that news story a few days ago, to a roomful of people at a Fort Worth hotel. Have we solved the crime problem by creating (intentionally or by accident) a new racial caste? The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William J. Stuntz, and Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy are not books written in response to Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. (more…).
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For savvy black Baptists in the SBC like Dwight McKissic, that’s a big problem. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.co.uk. (more…). “We’ve got to learn how to operate and do our mission and thrive in the urban environment. Is this a big deal, or a cynical ploy? Colbert, as always, is hilarious and Alexander is characteristically eloquent (when you spend two years talking about the same subject you get your talking points down cold). How did America solve its crime problem? Ted Sirota), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
We rolled up our sleaves and fixed it, Zimring says. Land lost his radio program over his diatribe (largely because his racist comments turned out to be an unacknowledged quote from an obscure right-wing zealot), but he kept his post with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The Southern Baptist Convention is poised to elect its first African-American president. Alexander accused the criminal justice reform movement of seeking legal solutions to a moral problem, of fighting for affirmative action while abandoning the victims of a brutal and counter-productive drug war, of telling pretty stories about wrongfully convicted poster-boys while ignoring the social nightmares unfolding in poor communities of color. His election is a milestone for the 167-year-old denomination at a time when minorities make up a growing share of a shrinking membership. He knows it instinctively.”. As it happens and not exactly by coincidence, Alexander’s book is being reissued in paperback this week as we mark the birthday of the man who led America’s greatest mass movement for social justice. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.co.uk (UK). Land has apologized for dismissing prominent civil rights preachers as “race hustlers” and suggesting that Barack Obama only addressed the Trayvon Martin case in a desperate attempt to improve his standing with black voters. In a recent episode of Fresh Air on NPR, Dave Davies interviews attorney and author Michelle Alexander. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. It is ridiculous to imply that nothing has changed.”, Robinson is correct and incorrect. . Try again.
Challenges to the system will be easily absorbed or deflected, and the accommodations made will serve primarily to legitimate the system, not undermine it.
Luter’s decision to stay, and his personal charisma, propelled him to national prominence in the Southern Baptist Convention, says pastor David Crosby. When we learned that they’d be attending a conference in Los Angeles, Dick and I extended an invitation to have them come to our home in Mt. Luter, who is running unopposed for president of the nation’s largest Protestant body, is a departure from his predecessors. All you have to do is send him an email at lpitts@miamiherald.com with the subject line “I want it. Luter is that rarest of preachers, a man who rose from the streets, understands poverty, and spikes his call to conversion with a strong dose of compassion. In November of 2011 Dick and I attended an event in south Los Angeles where we met three friends face to face for the first time. Mamie Till’s public fight to get justice for her son is one of the untold sparks of the Civil Rights Movement. He isn’t getting reimbursed by his employer or Michelle Alexander’s publisher. http://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?api_key=41245586762&app_id=41245586762&channel_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-static.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fconnect%2Fxd_proxy.php%3Fversion%3D3%23cb%3Df368fb36ccec9b8%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffriendsofjustice.wordpress.com%252Ff149a67e6830d6a%26relation%3Dparent.parent%26transport%3Dpostmessage&client_id=41245586762&display=none&locale=en_US&origin=1&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs-static.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fconnect%2Fxd_proxy.php%3Fversion%3D3%23cb%3Df2c43905e867f2%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ffriendsofjustice.wordpress.com%252Ff149a67e6830d6a%26relation%3Dparent%26transport%3Dpostmessage%26frame%3Df2d06ab04f1092a&response_type=token%2Csigned_request%2Ccode&sdk=joey, “Both sides are us”: Stuntz and Kennedy unpack the spirituality of criminal justice reform, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness.