Lily’s Reviews > Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement > Status Update

“Racial segregation was instituted in the aftermath of slavery, in the aftermath of the black radical reconstruction, in an attempt to manage free black people.”

The personal is political. What happens in our public lives is reflected in our private. There’s alot of injustice in the worlds and a lot of exploitation. We have to be brave to stand up against injustice. Because there’s a lot occurring to keep us subdued and passive and unable to change the injustices occurring in the world.

“Prisons are racism incarnate. As Michelle Alexander point out, they constitute the new Jim Crow. But also much more, as the lynchpins of the prison-industrial complex, they represent the increasing profitability of punishment. They represent the increasing global strategy of dealing with populations of people of colour and immigrant populations from the countries of the global south….”

It’s important to look at things from an intersectional lens, or when assessing something to look at it from different or all-encompassing angles. For ex. The treatment of incarcerated women reveals a lot about the overarching system Vs. Just looking at it from the treatment of incarcerated men, but also women of colour in prison, men of colour in prison and intersections of gender and sexuality.

Author encourages people “to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as normal.” Because prisons are considered normal and it takes a lot to persuade people to think otherwise.