Racial profiling was chosen as the target of this yearâs âFatherâs Day Silent Marchâ [ silentmarchnyc.org ] to end âstop and frisk,â a discriminatory New York police practice that nets more than a half million black and Latino youth each year - and is vigorously defended by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
But New York is not the only place where the criminal justice system relentlessly targets people of color for disproportionate surveillance, arrest, and incarceration. In California, prison construction has expanded at record levels to incarcerate a rapidly growing proportion of blacks, Latinos, and others of color.
According to Ohio State University law professor MICHELLE ALEXANDER, this is no accident, but part of a racist and caste-based system of social control operating throughout the United States. Alexander refers to this in her new book as âThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.â
Alexander recently spoke in Dominguez Hills, Calif. about the re-insitutionalizing of the âJim Crowâ syndrome, courtesy of Global Voices for Justice [ gvfj.org ].
Anchor: Robert Knight Producer: Thiago Barrozo Engineer: Michael G. Haskins, Reggie Johnson Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
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