The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration

[Serious]

this thread gets made like every 2 months...

Just saying

 

[thaKEAF]

She dropped a lot of knowledge on Hidden Colors 2.

I'm gonna check out the book.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

she talks about the rate of drug usage being higher among white people actually. I read a study somewhere online that says the average drug user usually buys drugs from someone of the same race. so that probably means there are far more white drug dealers out there. but its not white people who are being targeted and affected at such a huge rate.

 

[Xtraz2]

This is old ass news

however it's tha truth

 

[John Hull]

Prison Industrial Complex.

 

[Family Man]

good looking out, it's a dry as fuk read so i'll get into it tomorrow or tonight, BUT, i didn't really see anything on usage being a a crakka thing in terms of percentage. The report left out drug use by race.

I'm curious if there is anything saying more white people use drugs as a percentage of anyone else.

I suspect this to be true, particularly when you take into account that millions of white americans who don't get busted for this stuff because they are behind a gated community.

Again, after goign to an affluent private highschool in Phoenix and being one of maybe 5 kids in my class that didn't use drugs it always made me feel this way. Then as i grew up and still knew far more white folks using drugs than anything else the idea was further cemented. Outside of my anecdotal experience i've no proof Just a strong speculation.

I work in the substance abuse field and 70% of everyone that we see are CACs from all walks of life. I know you can't go by what I say but these CACs are doped up man.

 

[Patrick Kane]

Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom.

In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California's economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results--a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law--pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state's commitment to prison expansion.

Another great read on the subject.

 

[Kuro]

This is old ass news

however it's tha truth

how is it 'old ass news' if it happens everyday????......

 

[Xtraz2]

how is it 'old ass news' if it happens everyday????......

cuz nikkaz wuz talkin bout this shyt years ago, ya'll just catchin on?

better late then never i guess!

 

[thaKEAF]

Link in the profile.

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

this thread gets made like every 2 months...

Just saying

that just means more and more people are catchin on

 

[Gus Money]

I'm about 1/4 of the way through and she wrote some interesting information on Clinton's presidency. She feels that he pushed the "tough on crime" approach to new heights, despite the negative effects on the black community, and she argues that he was the president most responsible for the current racial undercaste system.

 

[Blackking]

very good point with this lady

 

[OsO]

this was a powerful book... every young black man should read it.

 

[CASHAPP]

I'm about 1/4 of the way through and she wrote some interesting information on Clinton's presidency. She feels that he pushed the "tough on crime" approach to new heights, despite the negative effects on the black community, and she argues that he was the president most responsible for the current racial undercaste system.

I just finished the book and I love how she incorporated the references at the end. Not just a page or two of references, she listed all the sources.

Anyway of course. This is why it gets annoying as hell when people especially Black people slurp off Bill Clinton so hard. He went even further than Regan with the drug war. How is that missed?

This is why it pisses me off when you see fools like Chris Tucker go on Bet Award Shows and make jokes about "being in Africa with bill clinton and making the cheesy "black jokes"