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New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 13:34 — Carl Dix

by Carl Dix

Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow takes us in the right direction to understanding mass incarceration – but it doesn’t go far enough. “It is essential to not fall into seeing the necessary resistance movement being a rerun of the movement that broke the back of Jim Crow.”

Just Like Crack in the 80s, the Police State Thrives on Gun Hysteria

Wed, 02/13/2013 - 00:53 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

African American politicians and activists implored President Obama and others in authority to “do something” about gun violence in inner cities. Be careful what you ask for. The current gun hysteria will serve as an excuse to expand the police state, through a new wave of “mandatory minimum sentences and adoption of New York-type stop-and-frisk policies.”

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New Data Show Black Students Have Been New Jim Crowed

Wed, 03/07/2012 - 09:48 — Glen Ford

 

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

New data indicate that Black stigmatization as criminals pervades the nation’s public schools, just as it saturates the larger society. “For teachers and school disciplinarians, just as with street cops and prosecutors, race is the most important factor in who is charged with an offense, and how severe the penalty is.” A doubling of school suspensions and expulsions has occurred since the early Seventies, the same period that brought us mass Black incarceration.

America is a Fascist State Because it is Racist

Tue, 10/18/2011 - 20:47 — Mike Pirsch

 

by Mike Pirsch

White Americans seldom see fascism in their behavior and political decisions, but that’s largely because they also don’t recognize racism, in themselves and fellow whites. The American brand of fascism is “fertilized” by racism, an evil ideology that is embedded in the national mythology. Americans are taught they are a nation of immigrants. “What is not mentioned is the genocide committed by the immigrants.” Black is the color of criminality, just as it was the color of slavery. “Criminal justice is as much a strategy of political neutralization as it is a channel of instinctive racism.”

Incarceration Nation

Tue, 04/05/2011 - 19:50 — Linn Washington, Jr.

 

by Linn Washington, Jr.

Mass Black incarceration is a kind of “punitive backlash” against the gains of the Sixties, and only a "a major social movement" can challenge it. Nowhere on the planet is mass imprisonment more entrenched than in the United States. "The U.S. imprisons more than South Africa did under apartheid.” At every stage of the criminal justice system, Blacks are selected for harsher treatment. "In major urban areas almost one-half of black men have criminal records.”

Obama’s America and the New Jim Crow

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 21:31 — Michelle Alexander
by Michelle Alexander
The color of the chief executive officer of the United States masks the little-changing realities of mass Black life in America, and the rise of a new system of Black suppression and control. “In some states, African Americans comprise 80%-90% of all drug offenders sent to prison.”
Mass Black incarceration is the crucible in which has been forged a New Jim Crow.
 
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