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January 17 - March 3, 2025
new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals—
We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned
rising incarceration rates, to be a function of poverty and lack of access to quality education—the continuing legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
War on Drugs was launched in response to crack cocaine.
black “crack whores,” “crack dealers,” and “crack babies”—
worst negative racial stereotypes
smuggling illegal drugs
inner-city black neighborhoods
crack co...
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blocked law enf...
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Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates.
white youth, are more likely to engage in drug crime than people of color.
80 percent of young African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination
permanently locked up and locked out of mainstream society.
frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.
U.S. crime rates have dipped below the international norm.
incarceration rate that is six to ten times greater than
1973 that “no new institutions for adults should be built and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed.”
“the prison, the reformatory and the jail have achieved only a shocking record of failure. There is overwhelming evidence that these institutions create crime rather than prevent it.”
One in three young African American men will serve time in prison if current trends continue,
more than half of all young adult black men are currently under correctional control—
“despite the civil rights victories of our past, racial prejudice still pervades the criminal justice system.”
the current system of control permanently locks a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy.
The system of mass incarceration is based on the prison label, not prison time.
achieved largely by appealing to the racism and vulnerability of lower-class whites,
