There are more blacks in prison then slaves in slavery !
n the 1980s Communist Romania under the most brutal eastern european dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu locked up 71,000 of its own citizens or 1 in every 300. Today the USA, the world's oldest democracy jails 2.2 million or 1 in every 136 of it's own
citizens, ie. 2.2 times the incarceration rate of a notorious police state. This does not make any sense unless we look at the racial aspects of the US justice system.
Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/11... Buy "Is It Because I'm Black"
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Saturday, June 29th 2013 at 3:36PM
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