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| via Jeremiah Adebayo @ http://my.opera.com/diplomat2009/blog/ |
Law professor and author, Michelle Alexander spoke with concerned citizens in Pasadena, California about her bestseller,
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and the staggering number of African-American men who are caught up in the for-profit, American prison system.
This comes at a significant cost to the African-American community. Many of these men have felony convictions and lose their voting rights, have children and aren't allowed to partake in many economic and educational opportunities. From elections to employment to education, these men are disenfranchised. America is the land of opportunity, but it is also the land of the highest incarceration rate in the world!
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via Prison Culture, http://www.usprisonculture.com/ |
“More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentation.
