Kim Johnson
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This Is My America
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2020
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“An AK-47 in a white hand has more rights than a Black kid with Skittles.”
― This Is My America
― This Is My America
“When I’m ready, I force myself to study Mama, because I need to learn that strength so I can pass it down, like a family recipe. An heirloom. A curse.”
― This Is My America
― This Is My America
“The prison-industrial complex is a $182 billion industry that feeds off the lives of Black, brown, and poor people caught up in its vicious cycle.* While mass incarceration is a complex problem, I wanted to simply (ha ha) focus on how it’s almost impossible to prove someone is innocent without adequate representation.”
― This Is My America
― This Is My America
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