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We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to be not racist. Now let’s know how to be antiracist.
“Our white countrymen do not know us. They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Real happiness comes from our ability to be compassionate toward ourselves and others. It’s not a particularly sexy concept, but it’s no less true. Making peace with our own shortcomings and treating ourselves with the respect that we reserve for our closest friends is the only path to fulfillment.”
― We Should All Be Mirandas: Life Lessons from Sex and the City's Most Underrated Character – Snarky Wisdom and Pragmatic Advice for Modern Career Women
― We Should All Be Mirandas: Life Lessons from Sex and the City's Most Underrated Character – Snarky Wisdom and Pragmatic Advice for Modern Career Women
“The rhetoric of “law and order” was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Racial indifference and blindness—even more than overt racial hostility—form the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less than two decades after the War on Drugs began, one in seven black men nationally had lost the right to vote, and as many as one in four in those states with the highest African American disenfranchisement rate.33”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Miranda’s 2025 Year in Books
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