The Sick Logic of the Mass Incarceration of Black People, the Relationship between Science and Morality, a Call for the Arrest of the Pope and Arizona Goddamn!
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, PZ Myers, science blog Pharyngula. Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Communist Party
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Michelle Alexander provides an incisive and insightful picture of how the War on Drugs and the resulting mass incarceration of Black and brown people was designed to create a racialized caste system, a whole new Jim Crow system even as we're told that we live in a colorblind society; PZ Myers discusses the relationship between Science and Morality and the role of each in the world and comments on Richard Dawkins call for the arrest of the Pope; In the wake of the fascist assualt on immigrants in Arizona Bob Avakian offers a thought on Why People Come Here from All Over the World.
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