When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" 50 years ago, he had no idea Jim Crow would be replaced with another oppressive system: mass incarceration and the drug war. WATCH...
========== When you talk about Mass Incarceration, there's
some big language barriers. Because when yousay Mass Incarceration to a person that's
not involved in it, engaged in it, or a personthat lives up on the hill and all of his family
is real real rich -and this, that and theother.You talk about "Oh, those are criminal people
-I don't mess with them."But when you say it in the black community,
they can sit up there and tell you "Y'know,all my cousins got locked up, my brother got
locked up, these folks just out here lockingup all our friends and stuff and everything.
Mass incarceration is real."Other people don't even feel it.When you talk about mass incarceration to
a person that is not affected by it,...
