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But racially biased policing is just one piece of a broader system that stigmatizes and targets black men for arrest and incarceration at an early age, when many are pushed out of school and into juvenile lock-ups for trivial offenses.
Its a system that has forged the worlds largest prison system, one that author and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander has labeled the new Jim Crow.
And its a system that has resulted in a dramatic rise in the U.S. incarceration rate the number of prisoners per-capita that the National Academy of Sciences has concluded is unprecedented in world history.
http://www.splcenter.org/18-things-you-should-know-about-mass-incarceration
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)did anyone see what was/is being done here (not by you, ismnotwasm ... hey, I just paid attention to you screen name ... I like it's truth) ...
Buried in the midst of the slides (#6 and 8 and then again at #16) the REAL purpose of this slide show is revealed ... "Be upset about the mass incarceration because ... DRUGS!" ... not because the system is grossly over-represented, Black.
Were that, not, the case, why devote 3 (out of 18) slides to communicate what the final slide (#18) communicates ... the disparity between black and white.
BTW, I have read, and highly recommend, Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness ; but it is not what many try to make it out to be ... a pointed condemnation on the "War on Drugs", which was discussed (along with other policy phenomena like "Zero Tolerance" and school discipline policies) in a single chapter of a 6 chapter book.
Sorry ... Just got to get that out there!