Status Updates From The House That Race Built: ...

"The more jails and prisons are constructed, the greater fear of the crime. And the greater the fear of the crime, the stronger the cry for more prisons and jails, ad infinitum."

"Racism has always found an easy route from its embeddedness in social structures to the psyches of collectives and individuals precisely because it mobilizes deep fears. While explicit, old-style racism may be increasingly socially unacceptable - precisely as a result of anti-racist movements over the last forty years - this does not mean that the U.S society has been purged of racism."