Michelle Alexander Appreciation Thread...

[Blackking]

jesus don't tell me your one of those people....

guns ARE the issue...don't come in here with no "buu...butt Chicago has some of the strictest gun control"

Chicago also has some of the weakest sentencing laws and gun trafficking is not even a felony in the country(a big reason) which is one of the things they wanted to change

also its the states around Illinois that have the weak gun laws where folks can just get guns....the same way folks in ny can go to Virginia to get guns easier.....

your underestimating how much universal background checks would change everything also....

that and the things I am mentioning above....this is gonna be Obamacare 2.0 with people oonce again not learning and being surprised they were wrong again and the actual bill ends up working

don't come in here with no "bu...butt its a mental health issue not a gun issue"

There are towns in Michigan that you could dump a stock pile of weapons in ... and there would be zero gun violence---- ACTUALLY there are towns like that in my state, this is a gun heavy state.

But u put a couple AK's in any hood in Detroit or flint... and you will have bodies. It's not because of the guns... it's because of the depression, ignorance, social economic factors, and revolving door of our criminal justice system. There are places all around the nation where young men just don't give a fukk.

There are also mass shootings-- which nearly 100% of the time are a mental health issue , as opposed to a gun issue.

 

[Wild self]

She fine and she stands for a great cause. Whoever wifed her up done well.

 

[CASHAPP]

She fine and she stands for a great cause. Whoever wifed her up done well.

you remember her saying in her book how her husband doesn't share her views but still supports her strongly








































at her having her maiden name instead of taking his name but ill stop and be easy on her to not turn this into "one of thos threads"

 

[Wild self]

Yeah, but she is a worthy person that is professional and upstanding. Instead, the media will drown us with shytty images of Nicki Minaj. SMH

That drug war book would make me mad as shyt.

 

[///Vega+++]

I could listen to her all day

 

[CASHAPP]

I could listen to her all day

Tried to get my mother to read the book(I own it) but she is a lost cause...one of "those" women...I'm sure if Steve Harvey told her to read it on his wack show she would do it...

But my point is this....isn't it ironic all these Black women with sons....talk about racism and defending their sons but when it comes to learning about hard things their neighbor's Black sons are going through or even simply reading a book that would give them knowledge about a travesty taking place in society...they can act like animals in supermarkets but can't do something simple like read a book like this or watch interviews by Michelle

 

[///Vega+++]

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/michelle-alexander-white-men-get-rich-legal-pot-black-men-stay-prison
http://www.drugpolicy.org/resource/...talk-michelle-alexander-and-dpas-asha-bandele

 

[tmonster]

Magnificent post
and now I shall rep thee...

 

[tmonster]

I could listen to her all day

get in line
I lover her more than you do

 

[tmonster]

I shall return to drink the goodness of this thread
too much to do today!

 

[tmonster]

Yall see how she is crossing her legs

but stop looking at my woman

 

[tmonster]

Tried to get my mother to read the book(I own it) but she is a lost cause...one of "those" women...I'm sure if Steve Harvey told her to read it on his wack show she would do it...

But my point is this....isn't it ironic all these Black women with sons....talk about racism and defending their sons but when it comes to learning about hard things their neighbor's Black sons are going through or even simply reading a book that would give them knowledge about a travesty taking place in society...they can act like animals in supermarkets but can't do something simple like read a book like this or watch interviews by Michelle

Can't stand his "so happy to be ignant ass" :zfg:

 

[Bolzmark]

I've seen Mrs. Alexander's interviews and I'm reading her book now. I do agree thee need to be some major changes done to drug laws, starting with legalizing weed and releasing all prisoners immediately who are in jail just for that. Sentences need to be reduced and drug addiction needs to be treated like a disease, a least giving the user the opportunity to better themselves before being prosecuted.

But I do have some issues with her position.

First, the title and premise of the book has to be offensive to those who actually suffered through slavery and Jim Crow. Why? Because to be a victim of those institutions you only had to do one thing - be black. As soon as you were born, if you were black, as soon as you stepped out the womb it was basically . On the other hand, with todays incarceration, don't you have to at least ALLEGEDLY commit a crime? We can argue all day about the harshness of the sentences, but at the end of the day, in principal, you did something wrong to be put in that position, it wasn't like "you're black, go straight to jail" like it was for slavery and Jim Crow.

Secondly, her position is silent as to personal responsibility. Are the drug laws fukked up? YES. But our people are not FORCED to violate them. And since we all know its illegal, and the punishment is way more than it should be, why not just stay away from it altogether? I mean its hard to believe in 2014 people still fukkin wit crack. He was being funny, but when Colbert said "just say no" he was on to something. I mean the drug game is a fukkin trap (pun intended) and our people need to recognize it as such.

She also kind of contradicts herself in the book when describing the impact that the introduction of crack in the mid 80's had on our community. First she quotes someone who said the crack trade hit the black community like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Then a couple pages later she says its impact was exaggerated, for the purpose of getting support from blacks, getting more money, etc. Now if you are a black adult, you were likely touched by the crack game in some way. Whether it was users or sellers in your family, or you were a victim of crime committed by users like theft, we've all been affected.

To me the real work need to be improving our socio-economic position. And it starts with education. States look at 3rd grade test scores to determine how much prison space they will need in the future. We need to improve our situation BEFORE the criminal justice system, not wait until we are in it then hope for the law makers to start reducing sentences and changing laws.

 

[86\*/98]

I'm surprised there's a thread on this beautiful soul, good job coli.

 

[Kritic]

I'm surprised there's a thread on this beautiful soul, good job coli.

this is hl... there's plenty about her..