A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. It’s simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system.
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ReplyDeleteThus we have the "incarcerated class," first coined by Tony Waters, a professor at CSU Chico.
Fast forward a decade or two.
The schools that contain the children of the above mentioned class were once known as "traditional public schools." The children of the non-incarcerated lower class now exclusively attends private or publicly-funded private (= charter) schools.
It's a variation of the brown paper bag test, and who's better than who.