As promised in an earlier post, we open our ears to the voice of civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander in an excerpt from her devastatingly accurate account of our system of mass incarceration, The New Jim Crow. Images are from the website of the Equal Justice Initiative.
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Our question: do we have the courage to face the implications of Alexander’s brilliant stripping away of the disguise?
Below, a link to a video from the Equal Justice Initiative, tracing the passage from slavery to mass incarceration.
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