Michelle Alexander started writing The New Jim Crow after she declined to represent a potential plaintiff in a suit bc he has a record
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I believe he said to her something like “Good luck finding anyone in my neighborhood they haven’t already got.”
Later, Alexander & the ACLU discovered the police were indeed dragnetting his neighborhood to arrest black boys
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If you decide to only care about those who’ve never been arrested or never spent time in prison…
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….well, the police are making things easy for you! Those numbers are going down every day!
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@sarahjeong The petty arrests on one day provide their rationalizations on a later one -
@gretchenatwood if no petty arrests yet, then some BS like “clothes consistent with committing a crime” or “furtive movements” -
@sarahjeong Read abt a kid attacked 4 "having his hands in his pockets" It's not only that they'll make up *anything* but that ppl accept it -
@gretchenatwood i think people are waking up to the bullshit, but it’s still slow going. -
@sarahjeong Biggest problem = many ppl don't want to wake up, status quo is fine with them. Hard to convince that group but, yes, progress
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