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All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.

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In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.

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The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.

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Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.

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On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

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I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.

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Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

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I believe that Trayvon Martin's life might well have been spared if many of us who care about racial justice had raised our voices much, much sooner and much, much more loudly about the routine stereotyping and profiling of young black men and boys.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1967

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