I agree with every single thing written here.
Anybody who thinks that racism and all its concomitant and profound problems is over, is either living in a bubble, or deliberately chooses to ignore what the he!! has been going on.
Kudos to Steven M. Singer for writing this.
Thank you, Steven.
“One of our founding principles as a nation [is] that Black lives and Black bodies don’t matter; you see that in all our headlines today. This original sin lingers on, that’s why we got to call it sin… Slavery never ended, it just evolved. Mass incarceration is the current evolution of slavery.”
–Jim Wallis
“Even the most casual student of our country’s legal system should know that racism hasn’t existed since 1964 when we passed the Civil Rights Act. So obviously there’s no possible way for my statement to be considered racist if racism hasn’t existed for fifty years! I mean come on, racism? It’s 2015 people, racism is over.”
When does brutality end – when it stops being practiced or when its effects stop being felt?
Neither condition has been met in the United States today. Black people still suffer under…
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