Great post by Taquiena Boston, Director Multicultural Growth and Witness at the UUA especially this part: In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander issued a clarion call to end the mass incarceration system that incriminates, imprisons, and disempowers communities of color. In response to the Zimmerman verdict she wrote: “If Trayvon Martin has been born white he would be alive today… If he had been white, he never would have been stalked by Zimmerman, there would have been no fight, no funeral, no trial, no verdict. It is the Zimmerman mindset that must be found guilty–far more than the man himself. It is a mindset that views black men and boys as nothing but a threat, good for nothing, up to no good no matter who they are or what they are doing. It is the Zimmerman mindset that has birthed a penal system unprecedented in world history, and relegated millions to a permanent undercaste.”
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:12:46 +0000
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