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Published on Jun 28, 2011 by

Michelle Alexander, a long time civil rights advocate and litigator as well as a law professor at Ohio State University, speaks with California Lawyer Magazine's Martin Lasden about Alexander's new book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Series: "Legally Speaking" [6/2011] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21301]

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  • She's a beautiful and intelligent woman.

  • Riots and Flash Mobs are going to happen in your town, in your city, in your neighborhood. And they will happen night after night, week after week, year after year.

    And it has nothing to do with the economy. It has to do with importing tens of millions of thirdworld orcs, who created poverty, disease, violence and death in their own native habitats.

    Environments are created organically. Different races create different environments.

  • Teens Target Cyclists in ‘Knockout’ Game, CBS (St. Louis);

    “It just seemed like they wanted to beat me up.”

  • The Racial Violence that Dare Not Speak Its Name, American Thinker;

    “Flash mobs have turned the comfortable narrative of racism on its head.”

  • Harsher penalties can increase the likelihood of more violent crimes. A person engaged in a crime, e.g,. robbery, may assume an "all or nothing" attitude due to the realization of the extensive penalty for their offense. This is a very complicated issue a more lenient consequence may not necessarily reduce the desire to commit a serious offense. She is unearthing some of the social/historical underpinnings of how we got here. We all need to consider this information when thinking of solutions.

  • not part of history as taught today, the jews who owned and ran the slave ships abused the women all the way over on the voyage from Africa, and delivered many of them to auction already impregnated with a 'jew-latto'.

  • The white race kill more any other race Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia, Granada, Panama, Vietnam, Cambodia, and in my Hood..... All war crimes by this evil capitalist system, How dare he say that young black men commit the most crime, the only part that is true is that Black are the victim of the most crimes world wide...

  • She is my Shero :) 

  • 4peace2b the drug war must end!

  • The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the Media,

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