Dr. Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Reelblack checked in with Dr. Angela Davis during her recent stop at Bryn Mawr College. In this short clip she discusses her latest books on Prison Reform. (apologies for the poor audio--please take time to hear this great woman's words)

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[drbinc1]

If you understand what encourages criminal activity then you can understand her position. No ones defending rapist, murders and child molesters, 70% of the people who are in jail, committed non

violent acts, since the war on drugs more minorities have been the target of prosecution, although 85% of drug

consumption is done by whites, this is disproportionate, the only thing different from a white drug dealer and a black drug dealer, is that the black drug dealer is more likely to go to jail!

[adolescent900]

i am a criminal justice graduate and this women is absolutely right.

[JohnPMackDaddy]

Angela Davis was right - legit - correct 40 yrs ago, and she is still so today.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

she's a fucking freak.

[paniatka]

90% of crimes are commited because of money. So this monatary system can't be right

[Levicobx]

QUESTION? Who is benefiting from the 'Jim Crow' slavery???

[TheFlanker35]

@eb7348,

When you put it that way, it doesn't sound racist and I could have misread it. I thought he was talking about a lot of the family structures in Africa where a child is called a different name by everyone in his neighborhood so he has twenty names or so.

[eb7348]

@TheFlanker35 I read podzillart's post and i didnt get what you got from it (obviously) my translation: Prison is set up to target non whites THUS destroying the family structure of non whites which otherwise would be the same as whites. This is not saying that the family structure is different to begin with. I THINK he is saying that this is one of the causes of the breakdown of these families. I didnt read any racism (maybe I read the wrong post) :-)

[TheFlanker35]

@podzillart,

So there's a white family structure vs. nonwhite family structure? You're racist and should be forced to attend sensitivity and diversity training. There's a black president so you're just a lazy scumbag unfit even for lab tests.  Since you think there's a white family structure verses a nonwhite family structure, you must also be a brutal racist. It's racist to oppose wife beating and dog torturing now I guess.

[podzillart]

prison in the euro/american paradigm exists to enslave and oppress the growth of non whites.. to destroy the non white family structure and disempower those peoples in order to keep them in a position of perptetual servitude and suffering..period!

[fccjbiology]

until you live in a given perspective and experience its hard to separate that from the bigger reality. take for instance, most of the people in florida prison are black, who will lose their civil rights which used to be restored automatically. However, that's no longer the case as of march 2011. the struggle is forever that more eluding them. I am from Florida but now live in Canada. these sort of systematic state practice will forever hold down a people based on races.