war on drugs
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Echoes of Jim Crow: The War On Drugs and Presidential Politics
In her sensational work, The New Jim Crow, civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander uncovers the manifold parallels between the contemporary regime of mass incarceration and the era of Jim and Jane Crow. We at WIT have reflected upon the racially unjust character… Continue reading
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What the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Have In Common
What does it say about us as a nation when even the killing of sleeping children is incapable of making us change our course? As Amy Davidson of the New Yorker reports, U.S. led NATO forces have killed four Afghan… Continue reading