This video was originally published on April 22, 2015.
Reporter Taya Graham hosts a Town Hall with Michelle Alexander, a legal scholar, civil rights litigator, and author of The New York Times best seller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She joined The Real News Network and Baltimore City community members to discuss the school to prison pipeline while Freddie Gray was still in the hospital just 2 days before his death April, 19, 2015 from injuries sustained while in police custody.
#schooltoprisonpipeline #policebrutality #policereform #baltimore
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Bill Clinton pandered to conservatives in order to get votes.
59:25 This man is correct. Fix this issue before the street fixes it.
1st We have Got to stand up Teach and get ppl to UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. How it works what it's purpose is. We need to talk Politics at home. It's not the sex talk we shouldn't fear it bc our kids don't get Political Sciences in-depth conversation. And the Slavery Impact Generation is now Grandparents young but still. So if the Truth about us. And How we Never go back there needs to be REMEMBERED Understood. The Real Impact sacrifice that went into getting to Not know what it was like WHEN. It's gotta be discussed. Bc the Min we sit back and say "Well that doesn't effect Me, and do Nothing. The min Your rights are next. Once they get rid of one group and you co sign. How will they relieve their thirst for hate or bias?
Local POLITICS Foundational thinking.
I personally think that Police Shootings Discrimination issues. Out to have a Federal Reporting System. So there can be a more accurate understandings of the Problems with Policing. Every State has it's Own Rules and that's fine. But major Crimes committed by Police should me Mandatory reporting. Like ppl with Medical and Law Licenses
â Crazy that the explosion of women incarceration rates seems to be Poor white women while they are simultaneously pushing to De- Stigmatize Heroin use bc it effects white suburban and rich Families.
Mistakes are Lessons. What you Choose to do with it. Is the thing. Because this also has an added bonus of ensuring that There is 1Less black/brown vote we have to answer to.
L(≧▽◉‿◉▽≦)When Truth Hurts….Value the IMPACT ☜ (↼_↼✿)
Remember this when you are being bullied to vote for Biden. He created one of the most racist bills in US history to help create this mess.
Old term prejudice has become modern racist. I don't believe slavery ended until 1965. Then the war on crime & the drug war started the genocidal antidote which became mass incarceration. The mere evidence of such was the three time loser law…To keep the targeted population in the prison industrial complex. Broken windows shored up all the other failed doctrines. What we clearly have now is a legal system who can defer traditional punishment with deferment to an alternative court setting an example being drug court/veterans court. This is but for a select few… The rest of those entangled in the snare are cycled through with the most punishment applied in thier instance.Minimum/ Mandatory structured sentencing guidelines equal 85% time completed no parole are new concepts being indoctrinated such as North Carolina… None of this ever worked unless there is a value of incarcerating & eventually removing multiple generations from society because that is all that happened a soft genocide… I made a COPWATCHING video Friday the GPD MAKES AN ARREST YOU MAKE THE CALL , which features another YOUNG man taken away for what??? The beast was hungry, feed it that's all, that YOUNG man will sustain the beast for now. Here in our county we made jailhouse phone calls free and are preparing to end the jail booking fees… No rest for the wicked, the SHERIFF has a surplus of well over $1,000,000.00 in the inmate welfare fund but 🚫 soap for inmates & if YOU want to clean YOURSELF, YOU must buy it/$OAP YOURSELF,. The blue/blew isis way… This video is featured on my channel FREE COUNTY JAIL PHONE CALLS… ONE LOVE, FREEDOM
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May I just say that u a part of this upside down, clown town world!! Respectfully, THE QUEEN. 👑
Taya, you and Michelle look like sisters! Beautiful young ladies! Thanks for all you do!
Very good conversation. However, "the master's tools" refers to the capitalist state apparatus, meaning that we'll never vote capitalism out, nor will any judge ban it. The means of production must be seized, for starters.
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The competition from successful Communist China will change the system. The new balance of power in the International arena will impact the United States hegemons economy. Meritocracy is the future. The change has occurred,acknowledgement and accommodation is slow. Anticipate the disruptions and chaos to be prepared. Thanks for information and commitment. From those of us at the bottom of the well.
Nothing changes. Talk is cheap.
Children living with an incarcerated parent is a trauma unlike any other and there are many.
. . . while you're at it read "White –ash: 40 Years of Class In America! The New Jim Crow: . . . needs to be required reading. With the banning of books that will never happen.
Never call these "UNITED STATES CORPORATION" CLOWNS leaders, they're not even Representatives! Private Foreign Fake Counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes Monopoly Money That they print to Infinity which causes Hyperinflation, these are SLAVE TAGS!
Article 1 Section 8 Clause 4-5, To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of Foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; What is Congress doing now; Counterfeiting! We have National Security Issues when we as a Country cannot Control our Monetary System!
Article 1 Section 10 Paragraph 1; No State shall; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; That's being used on Us since a Foreign Entity controls our Monetary System! Straight Up Gangsters!
coin Money;
emit Bills of Credit; a promissory note issued by a government on its own credit and intended to be circulated as money! Again Counterfeiting by Proxy is still Counterfeiting!
make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; So we can't Pay our Debts, all we can do is Discharge/Setoff Debt meaning we cannot own any property!
pass any Bill of Attainder; legislation that imposes punishment on a specific person or group without a judicial trial; Traffic Tickets fall into this Category!
ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. Application for a Drivers License fall in here also!
That green screen is so off-putting 😆
One of the topics that gets overlooked about prisons is political representation. Inmates are not allowed to vote, yet they count in political representation. Since most prisons are located in rural areas, the political representation of most of the inmates was removed from the urban centers and transferred to rural areas giving rural voters near prisons enhanced political representation. Votes of people living near prisons count for up to several people. Each voter is voting for several of the inmates because the inmates can't vote. There is an inherent injustice in denying voting from inmates. Picture a system like in Germany before WW2. An oligarchy can make progressively oppressive laws against a particular community within the society and as long as that community is denied political representation and electoral participation, laws can be progressively unjust. I'm an anti woke, left but not liberal, white dude. I read The New Jim Crow. GREAT BOOK! I felt she was holding back because the truth is so bad, it's almost unbelievable. I don't think that we need to get rid of prisons or police, but police need to be on a leash and prisons need to be restructured to have only ONE purpose; rehabilitation. Last month in Texas 32 inmates died of heat exhaustion. Being essentially executed for doing something barely justifying a prison sentence is a criminal act its self and the Texas justice system needs to be in prison.
@57:50 ff as a Black cisgender male non-heterodox low-fixed income working class in the 91401 zip code ( San Fernando Valley, CA who has been needing the services of a licensed CA attorney; they do nof exist in LA CITY OR COUNTY. SINCE 2020.
Can we the 99% an example of #boycottVOTE states have an agreement to give %s of our youth to prisons #peoplesreset on this military lockdown of citizen. BoycottVOTE with your voice.
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Thank you, Taya Graham for having Michelle Alexander on this discussion today.
She is a truth teller. I bought her book when it first came out, " The New Jim Crowe."
Dr. Martin Luther KingJr marched for all people.
I saw this when this first came out. It was not today.
Great questions from the audience 👠ðŸ‘ðŸ¾
Cornel West for president 2024.
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Michelle Alexander is a beacon of hope and balance in a fractured sea of black leaders. She brings actionable options rather than merely creating more hopelessness. I am also thankful that Real News exists to counter the effects of mainstream media and to give voice for the voiceless. The nation needs to hear it, the nation needs a voice to challenge the Fox News channels and other propaganda that poses as news. Thank you.
Excellent discussion. Thank you RealNews for putting this out.