Lindsey

“Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“When I sat down to write The New Jim Crow, I wanted to expose the literal war that has been waged against our communities, a drug war in which millions were taken prisoner and tens of millions were criminalized, placed on probation or parole, and then released into a permanent second-class status often for simple possession of marijuana or some other drug for personal use.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“There may be no more consequential White privilege than life itself. White lives matter to the tune of 3.5 additional years over Black lives in the United States, which is just the most glaring of a host of health disparities, starting from infancy, where Black infants die at twice the rate of White infants.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“In fact, our system is primarily concerned with the perpetual control and marginalization of the dispossessed; it is not designed to respond meaningfully to the harms of violence”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness