- Child Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed, and controlled.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.
- Criminal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps there should be a box on the census form that says, 'I'm a criminal.' Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits - forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a criminal. Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me to see more clearly - with blinders off - the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to 'them,' those labeled criminals. I see now that 'they' are me, and I am them.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery, a new system of racial and social control was born, known as 'convict leasing.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know, what you find is that even for these extremely minor offenses, people find themselves trapped in a permanent second-class status and struggling to survive.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and racial inequality is something we don't have to think about anymore, don't have to worry about anymore.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been an outpouring of anger and concern because of the actions of George Zimmerman, a private citizen who profiled a young boy and pursued him and tried to confront him, perhaps. But what George Zimmerman did is no different than what police officers do every day as a matter of standard operating procedure.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same kinds of stereotypes and hunches that George Zimmerman used when deciding that, you know, Trayvon Martin seemed like a threat in his neighborhood, law enforcement officers employ all the time.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020