Michelle Alexander on Mass Imprisonment in the Age of Racial Nightmare
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, on Democracy Now takes aim at the underappreciated importance of racism in launching the drug war and constructing the world’s largest penal system. While the Obama presidency, for many, represents the triumphant culmination of the civil rights movement, in criminal justice race relations have reached their nadir. Says Michelle, this is less a golden age of tolerance and equal opportunity than another round of America’s recurring racial nightmares. See the video here and her TomDispatch post here.
