Always appreciate Whitlocks analysis. #SegregationByIncarceration There is no widespread epidemic of cops shooting and/or killing unarmed black men. Thats a false flag waved by the uninformed, the lazy and the crowd that needs Ebola and ISIS and disappearing airplanes for traction. Police killing unarmed men of any color is a man-bites-dog tragedy. Its rare, which is what makes the occurrence so television titillating. Of course, every instance is one too many, and as a society we should do everything we can to prevent it. But all this talk about the talk that black parents must have with their sons about interacting with police is slightly misguided. Talk about the real plague -- segregation by incarceration (SBI). SBI is why the African-American community is distrustful of law enforcement. SBI decimated the black family structure, leaving our communities fatherless and leaderless. SBI fertilized the cultural rot that makes us believe prison culture is African-American culture. SBI is why black and brown folks feel they cant breathe. You grow the jail/prison population from about 400,000 to 2.5 million in a 40-year period and there are bound to be drastic ramifications. You place more black men under government, penal supervision than were enslaved before the Civil War -- as Alexanders groundbreaking book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, revealed -- and there are bound to be damaging repercussions.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:55:14 +0000
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