Time to put race relations on the front burner. Societies that allow humiliation for classes of their citizenry to fester will necessarily have to deal with the resulting rage.
"There is nowhere in America where Jim Crow politics isn't found. The racial undercurrents of America continue to exist; it is usually only a matter of time when the covert becomes the overt. Racial Americana cannot escape its history, despite the refusal to talk about it in the colorblindness era, nor can it constantly be masked as racial exceptions rather than the societal rule. Hundreds of “isolated instances” have occurred all over America in the last twenty five years, and despite to the multi-focal dynamic that has overtaken the bi-focal dynamic of Black/White interaction, it should not be lost that Blacks have been at the top of the list of annual hate crimes for most of this period. The retrogression of race relations in this country is cemented in the constant imaging and framing of black males as suspect and hostile. Society’s perception of what is needed to control the hostility toward racial disparities and economic subjugation has been largely regulated into suppression, whether it is cultural (society driven) or institutional (policy or government driven). Jail is the new slavery and social control system, by which new slaves are captured and seasoned. It’s about time we woke up to this."
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