Thus, while this colored system of punishment for profit is not new, in the twentieth century, the fall of manufacturing giants, an increase in language that justifies a carceral state, and the sociopolitical power structure that keeps Whites at the top, left dark people in my hometown without a survival kit or a way to matter. The racial disparities of the incarceration rate demonstrate another example of the human hierarchy that was codified by slavery, denies dark Americans citizenship, fails to make good on America’s promises of democracy, and continually reinscribes itself as legitimate,
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