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Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world.

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After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

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In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.

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It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

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There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.

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In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

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We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.

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Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed, and controlled.

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The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

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The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7th, 1967

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