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“During his first year in office, Congress did just that, passing legislation that changed the formulas governing eligibility and payouts for certain means-tested entitlements.7 These changes led to a roughly 2 percent increase in the poverty rate, the brunt of which was borne by African Americans.”
― Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
― Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
“Most of all, the fight against crack helped to enshrine the notion that police must be warriors, aggressive and armored, working ghetto corners as an army might patrol enemy territory. At”
― Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
― Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
“During the first, in 1857, he forced himself to witness a public execution in Paris, and the sight shook him so deeply that he vowed he would never again serve any government.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“But such a simple account fails to acknowledge the world that pretext stops create—a world in which Ms. Dozier is arrested for an offense that white drivers commit with impunity.”
― Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
― Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”
― How Fiction Works
― How Fiction Works
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