Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1192223" data-attributes="member: 44954">Some black people were still being persecuted for voting in the deep South around the time of the I have a dream speech.... but the article was about slavery, and stated Roosevelt effectively ended debt peonage in 1942, 20+ years prior to the speech (although about 80 years after the emancipation proclamation). The most interesting, and debate worthy part of the article for me was this: As civil rights litigator and author Michelle Alexander points out in her recent book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595581030/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=root04c-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1595581030&amp;adid=0HWSY2NGDE94VCKJVFPV" target="_blank">The New Jim Crow</a>: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, the subjugation of African Americans through criminalization continues through the prison industrial complex.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1192223, member: 44954"] Some black people were still being persecuted for voting in the deep South around the time of the I have a dream speech.... but the article was about slavery, and stated Roosevelt effectively ended debt peonage in 1942, 20+ years prior to the speech (although about 80 years after the emancipation proclamation). The most interesting, and debate worthy part of the article for me was this: [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Helvetica] As civil rights litigator and author Michelle Alexander points out in her recent book, [/FONT][/COLOR][I][URL="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595581030/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=root04c-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=1595581030&adid=0HWSY2NGDE94VCKJVFPV"]The New Jim Crow[/URL]: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, [/I][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Helvetica]the subjugation of African Americans through criminalization continues through the prison industrial complex.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

Verification