Monday, July 6, 2015

Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State (from @Truthdig)

Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State (from @Truthdig)
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Tim Nolan said...

Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary and the police, can be adjusted, modernized or professionalized to make possible a post-racial America. We discuss issues of race while ignoring the economic, bureaucratic and political systems of exploitation—all of it legal and built into the ruling apparatus—that are the true engines of racism and white supremacy. No discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class. And until that discussion takes place, despite all the proposed reforms to the criminal justice system, the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity.

July 6, 2015 at 8:44 AM

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