The magic of it all is that racial oppression in the twenty-first century has become so sophisticated and subtle, in contrast to the overt racism in the mid-twentieth century, that no one even realizes that they are complicit in the system or that their own hands are dirty. One out of three African American males will go through the judicial system at some point in their lives because they have been categorized as a danger and a problem by the white dominant group. Young black women and men cannot drive their cars or walk on the streets of their own neighborhoods without being
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