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Tag Archives: African American
The New Jim Crow (encore, on vacation)
I first saw the title six months ago., “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (1210).” Could it be that the author was comparing our current prison system to the notorious system of … Continue reading
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Tagged "Jim Crow, African American, prison, prison industry., racism, roots of injustice, War on Drugs, welfare
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New Movement
About twenty years ago I knew Catherine McGowen, a retired cleaning woman from a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. A small African American, she had been one of grass roots activists in the civil rights movement. She was raising two young … Continue reading
War on Drugs
Shortly after Ronald Reagan promoted the “War on Drugs” in 1982, I met a young African American woman locked in jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had been arrested in a drug sweep and charged with prostitution. In the background, cells … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, Michelle Alexander, prison, Prostitution, racism, War on Drugs, women
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Earl Varner’s Mother
The tragic death of Trayvon Martin has triggered memories of a similar incident that occurred about twenty-five years ago. Mary Robinson, an African American social activist born in 1943, and I were working on a book about her home community … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Injustice, Racism, Roots of Injustice
Tagged African American, prison, racism, Trayvon Martin, violence
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