[via Michelle Alexander...] When the media and so-called experts say that a staggering racial disparity is complicated or confusing, its usually not either of those things. Complicated and confusing is code language for we cant face this ugly racial reality. And the ugly racial reality here is that our nation has divested from education and job creation in poor communities of color and massively invested in a penal system unprecedented in world history -- a system which includes, as one of its main features, constant police surveillance, harassment and abuse of poor people of color, especially black men. Thats whats happening here. Its not rocket science.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:46:14 +0000
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