Punk’s Reviews > The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness > Status Update

"White rural communities that house prisons wind up with more people in state legislatures representing them, while poor communities of color lose representatives because it appears their population has declined. This policy is disturbingly reminiscent of the three-fifths clause in the original Constitution."

The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, “We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were institutionally created and guaranteed along with it.”

From endnote #6: The 1988 surgeon general’s report lists tobacco as a more dangerous drug than marijuana, and Francis Young, an administrative law judge for the Drug Enforcement Administration found there are no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana, in any dose, has ever caused a single death.

Alexander just quoted some historian named Gerald McKnight as calling Martin Luther King Jr "America’s only civil rights leader" in 1968 and, Reader, my eyes nearly rolled out my damn head.

I've read the new preface, the foreword, the old preface, and the original introduction, and now, three hours later, I have reached the actual book.

Boy am I not reading this. But, to be fair, I'm not really doing anything I'm supposed to be doing.

Reading this in ebook with a paper copy standing by to check references, end notes.