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Another Great Myth of US History – Concerning Juneteenth
CONCERNING JUNETEENTH: The Great White Father, Union General, came to Texas and notified the slaves that they were now free, to their great jubilation. The fact is that the enslaved throughout the South had a great system of communication of news, called the “grapevine”. They often knew more about what was going on than the…
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Privileges: Prison & “White Skin”
Prison management involves use of both carrot and stick. The carrot is the “privileges” offered to the prisoner for obedient behavior. This encourages the inmate to view as a favor that which he should be receiving as a matter of right, to reduce him to dependence on the jailer’s good will, to a slavish mentality.…
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Racism & it’s Centrality – Excerpt from “The Crime of Impunity – The Crime of Punishment”
ON THE CENTRALITY OF RACISM In a book devoted to crime and punishment, why has racism been so much its centerpiece? First, because racism is this country’s key crime. And second, because racism is at the heart of the criminal justice system. We need not revisit the horrors of the slave past. These are usually…
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Rising Racism and Jewish-Black Relations
One of the hottest most rancorous issues agitating New York City politics today is the problem of Black-Jewish relations. This is not a new issue but has had a convulsive history going back several decades. There was, for example, the struggle around the building of low-income housing in predominantly Jewish Forest Hills. There was the…
