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A Colony in a Nation
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“In the Nation, there is law; in the Colony, there is only a concern with order. In the Nation, you have rights; in the Colony, you have commands. In the Nation, you are innocent until proven guilty; in the Colony, you are born guilty.”—Chris Hayes
If you saw Ava Duvernay's Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, most of what you'll read in MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes' new (slim) book will be familiar—infuriating— material. In summary? It's DISGUSTING the ways this country has turned criminalization into its newest form of slavery.
My hope is that the more of us (white, black, doesn't matter) helping spread word about books and films like this—works that force us to acknowledge and study America's brutal intersection power and punishment—the better equipped we become to act as the generation that makes it stop.
PS —I don't want to leave out Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow". That one comes highly recommended and is also on my list!
If you saw Ava Duvernay's Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, most of what you'll read in MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes' new (slim) book will be familiar—infuriating— material. In summary? It's DISGUSTING the ways this country has turned criminalization into its newest form of slavery.
My hope is that the more of us (white, black, doesn't matter) helping spread word about books and films like this—works that force us to acknowledge and study America's brutal intersection power and punishment—the better equipped we become to act as the generation that makes it stop.
PS —I don't want to leave out Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow". That one comes highly recommended and is also on my list!
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