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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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May 04, 2015 05:36PM

“If you are in a privileged group, and you want to help oppressed people, one of the best things you can do is teach other people in your privileged group. As a person of privilege, you do not have to actually face the oppression, so you have time to teach. Oppressed people do not have the energy to teach everyone about the oppression they have to live through every day.”
― D. Watkins, The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America

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“The streets provide an education in everything that many of these schools don’t, such as survival skills, kinship, moneymaking opportunities, and love. A love that is absent from the cold hallways of schools such as the ones Butta, I, and millions of other African Americans attend or attended. Butta’s school has been shut down, along”
― D. Watkins, The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America

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“My city is gone, my history depleted, ruined, and undocumented. I don’t know this new Baltimore, it’s alien to me. Baltimore is Brooklyn and DC now. No, Baltimore is Chicago or New Orleans or any place where yuppie interests make black neighborhoods shrink like washed sweaters. A place where black history is bulldozed and replaced with Starbucks, Chipotles, and dog parks.”
― D. Watkins, The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America

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