thesmithian: …legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. She says that although Jim Crow laws are now off the books, millions of blacks arrested for minor crimes remain marginalized and disfranchised, trapped by a criminal justice system that has forever branded them as felons and denied them basic rights and opportunities that would allow them to become productive, law-abiding citizens… more. She was on NPR this morning.  Check out the podcast.  Truth! http://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america

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…legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. She says that although Jim Crow laws are now off the books, millions of blacks arrested for minor crimes remain marginalized and disfranchised, trapped by a criminal justice system that has forever branded them as felons and denied them basic rights and opportunities that would allow them to become productive, law-abiding citizens…

more.

She was on NPR this morning.  Check out the podcast.  Truth!

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america

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