The U.S. now has the record for the most people incarcerated in the world. And the ways that injustice has been levied at black people is documented well in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Some call it though The New Slavery i.e. that Jim Crow or racial segregation is not strong enough a term. Instead, we see a kind of neo-slavery in operation as sentencing of black people is extreme, the labor of black men and women is used within the criminal justice system, the political system disenfranchises them, affects their future possibilities for work, housing and the like and then ensures that they get policed and then re-sentenced in injustice ways. The New York Stop and Frisk laws have been singled out by Khalil Gibran Muhammad in his The Condemnation of Blackness.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:18:49 +0000
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