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“But class divisions influence criminal justice debates in black communities in less obvious ways as well: they explain, for example, why black elected officials have been much more likely to speak out against racial profiling (which harms African Americans of all classes) than against unconscionable prison conditions (which have little direct impact on middle-class or elite blacks).23”
― James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

“Donald Trump, whose signature contribution to political debate had been his relentless propagation of the lie that Barack Obama is not an American citizen, ran the most racist presidential campaign since the arch-segregationist George Wallace’s 1968 bid. While”
― James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79”
― James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events. The”
― James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America