Michelle Alexander

Next Thursday, I interviewed the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the meaning and practice of liberation, elusive pursuit of racial justice, and the need to build sustainable revolutionary movements . All dignity and human nature. When they call you a terrorist (see https://bit.ly/2qvSK31): We discuss her wonderful memoir. Please join the conversation. It is open to the public for free. Thursday, April 19, at 7 pm, at Union Theological Seminary - James Chapel - 3041 Broadway, NYC. You can register below

I read Ta - Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, Howard Stevenson, Michelle Alexander. They explain today's racism (prison system, medical care, education, housing etc) and emphasize the importance of changing the story by talking about race. How are people continuing to influence many aspects of our system, centered on the race of our country? I do not say that all teachers at all schools in the United States will read the book I read before discussing or preparing for the civil rights movement course with Dr. King. But I think that before you teach racial discrimination and citizenship, you should read about white matter superiority, especially for white teachers. Regrettably, many white teachers participate in MLK racism every year (if that is the case), no matter how well they are good. And our understanding of racial discrimination and racial discrimination is often limited and immature.

As Michel Alexander said, mass prison is a new Jim Raven of the US New Race Caste system. This is the latest version of the generation Alexander calls "criminalizing and blackening of blacks". The fundamental cause of this imprisonment epidemic can not be solved by public policy alone. The obsession for American punishment is deeply rooted in a satisfying concept of whether there is always clear "correct" and "wrong" and which a small percentage of the population should choose. Over the centuries the call for primitive and horrible instincts proved to be good politics, and the concept of forgiveness, reconciliation, and even compromise was considered betrayal or innocence.