Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Police violence

 "[W]e look away from violence done by the police, because the police are not the true agents of the violence. We are.
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We are the ones who designed the criminogenic ghettos. We are the ones who barred black people from leaving those ghettos. We are the ones who treat black men without criminal records as though they are white men with criminal records. We are the ones who send black girls to juvenile detention homes for fighting in school. We are the masters of the American gulag, a penal system "so vast," writes sociologist Bruce Western, "as to draw entire demographic groups into the web." And we are the ones who send in police to make sure it all goes according to plan."

-      Ta-Nehisi Coates, getting to the truth of the matter.
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