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Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander
American Writer
Born: Oct 7, 1967
Black Justice People Police Prison You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race. Michelle Alexander
Vote Black Men Year Laws More Were Deny Than Amendment Disenfranchised Race Right Basis
People have a false understanding of what our legal system is like - how it works/operates - from shows like 'Law and Order,' which suggest that lawyers appear on demand and do a tremendous amount of investigation and background research. Michelle Alexander
Legal People Law Understanding Research Tremendous Tremendous Amount Our Background System Law And Order Lawyers Investigation Demand Like How False Legal System Order Which Appear Shows Amount Suggest
Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney. Michelle Alexander
People Prison Year Every Meeting Thousands Thousands Of People Attorney Without Go Jail Even
The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander
Success Black Few Visible System Examples High-Profile Fact Rationalize Highly Mass Excuse Does Exists In Fact Justify Incarceration Many Serve Actually
Some might argue that it's unfair to judge Hillary Clinton for the policies her husband championed years ago. But Hillary wasn't picking out china while she was first lady. She bravely broke the mold and redefined that job in ways no woman ever had before. Michelle Alexander
Woman Judge Job Husband First First Lady Before Unfair Ways Broke Out Some Argue Had Picking Hillary Hillary Clinton She Policies Years Years Ago Clinton Bravely Lady While China Might Mold Ever Her
Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world. Michelle Alexander
Life Change Struggle World Heroism Our Way Our World Kind Potential Life Story True Susan Precisely Story View Trauma Filled
The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that. Michelle Alexander
Love Time Black Long Long Time President Back Saxophone Has-Been Running Folks Some Shades Silly Threw Seems He Between Fell Retrospect Hall Affair Been Clinton Began Love Affair Going Us Bill Bill Clinton Show Many Played
People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits. Michelle Alexander
Life Home Legal People Benefits Political Face Prison Other Virtually Economic Area Employment Return Return Home Housing Denied Political Life Discriminated Discrimination Legally Against Public Social Public Housing Barred
When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind. Michelle Alexander
Needs You Hurt People Fault Compassion Mind Understanding Lose About Rather Given No-One Over Make How Been Lectures Than Amends Really Your
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Michelle Alexander
Justice People Criminal Our Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Criminals System Rather Rely Color Longer Exclusion Supposedly Contempt Practices Permissible Label Left Discrimination Than Behind Justification Race Social Explicitly Then Engage Use Socially
In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so. Michelle Alexander
Police Witness Other More Mass Perhaps Era Trusted Than Any Incarceration Less
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen. Michelle Alexander
Great Justice Reality Gift Crime Face South Africa Brazil Approaches Range Punishment Has-Been Great Gift Introducing Diverse Countries Singapore Forces Uganda Been South Questions Australia Nations Norway Africa Jamaica Us Incarceration Chosen Wide Wide Range
Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting its long-standing egalitarian culture and spirit of communitarianism - a spirit that extends to its prisons. Michelle Alexander
Education Health Culture Benefits Public Education Care Free State Spirit Long-Standing Health Care Prisons Provided Reflecting Child Egalitarian Child Care Norway Public Many Among Universal
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. Michelle Alexander
Problem Black Men Our Mindset System Particular Boy Dealt Been Infected Decades Controlled Views
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. Michelle Alexander
People Crime Black Country Once Status Brown Simply Force Because Permanent Committed Who Largely Millions Millions Of People Second-Class
There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America. Michelle Alexander
Control System Color America Social Racial Across Communities
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. Michelle Alexander
You People Free Trapped Criminal Extremely Status Find Minor Records Struggling Know Housing Permanent Arrest Discriminate Survive Officials Against Public To Survive Themselves Public Housing Even Including Basis Second-Class
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. Michelle Alexander
Time You Law Neighborhood Kinds Threat Law Enforcement Martin Seemed Stereotypes Like Employ Know George His Officers Same Deciding Enforcement Used
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Michelle Alexander
Time Mandatory Once Guilty Minimum About Give Rendered Judges Verdict Discretion Person Sentences Should Amount Receive
The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it. Michelle Alexander
Rights Say Those Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Caste Merely Longer Supposedly Exist Labeled Won Very America American Ended Movement African African Americans Racial Why
All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon. Michelle Alexander
You Legal Old Once Perfectly Supposedly Been Left Labeled Discrimination Behind Forms Now
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. Michelle Alexander
Control System Mass Massive Social Racial Incarceration
Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind, it is easy to imagine that we are making far more racial progress than we actually are. Michelle Alexander
Progress Matter Mind Analyzing Severity Sight Out Easy More Because Inequality Making Prisoners Than Far Racial Actually Imagine
Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent years. Ghetto youth are transferred from their decrepit, underfunded, racially segregated schools to brand-new high-tech prisons located in white rural counties. Michelle Alexander
Youth Construction Prison White Ghetto Located Bizarre Rural Emerged Segregated Segregation High-Tech Counties Thus New Most Schools Occurred Prisons Years Form Transferred Communities Decrepit Recent Recent Years
We have to stop thinking of criminals as 'them' and admit to ourselves, 'There but for the grace of God go I.' Michelle Alexander
God Grace Thinking Criminals Ourselves Admit Go Stop Them
I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a new movement that can hold the Democratic Party accountable or provide a meaningful alternative. Michelle Alexander
Seriously Party Building Believe Think Progressives Folks About Color New Particularly Democratic Democratic Party Alternative Provide Very Accountable Movement Hold Either Meaningful Need
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