If you are not supporting the work to keep innocent Black and Latino men out of prison, "you are a criminal!"

If you are not supporting the work to keep innocent Black and Latino men out of prison,

"you are a criminal!"

A Saturday Afternoon with

MICHELLE ALEXANDER

Author of "The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration In The Age of Color Blindness"

Professor Michelle Alexander

Saturday, May 21, 2011

12:30 pm to 4:00 pm

at the

Historic Riverside Church

490 Riverside Drive

Manhattan, New York

Click Here to Register

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Review by Mumia Abu-Jamal

The book, The New Jim Crow, offers an unflinching look at the US addiction to imprisonment, and comes up with a startling diagnosis; American corporate greed, political opportunism and the exploitation of age old hatred and fears have congealed to create a monstrous explosion in the world's largest prison industrial complex. Further, the author, a law professor at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, Michelle Alexander, digs deep into US history, and deeper still into US criminal law and practice to conclude that the barbarous system of repression and control known commonly as Jim Crow, had a rebirth in this era. That's why she calls it: The New Jim Crow.

This system of legal discrimination came into being much as the first one did. After the rout of the South by the Civil War, millions of newly freed Africans exercised these new rights under Reconstruction. Black men became senators and legislators across the South. But this period was short lived, and as soon as possible, states passed harsh laws known as Black Codes, which denied rights and criminalized behavior by Blacks, and exposed them to the repression of southern prisons, where convicts were leased out to labor for others; it was the rebirth of slavery by other means.

This present era began at the height of the US Civil Rights Movement, when millions of Blacks fought for their rights denied for more than a century. Alexander concludes that this new system, this new coalescence of economic and political interests, targeted Blacks, especially those engaged in the drug industry, as the human capital with which to provide massive construction, huge prison staffs, and the other appendages of the apparatus of state repression.

But perhaps Alexander's most salient point is her finding that America's Black population constitutes a 'racial caste' that feeds and perpetuates mass incarceration [195]
Indeed, every other societal structure supports this superstructure, from broken schools, to de-industrialization, to population concentration in isolated urban ghettoes, to the violence of police, and the silence of the Black Middle class.

One might argue that such a claim seems unsustainable when we see a Black president, hundreds of black political figures and those in entertainment and sports. But Alexander explains that every system allows exceptions, for they serve to legitimize the system and mask its ugliness and its gross effects upon the majority of Blacks.

For example, while it's well-known that apartheid was an overtly racist system, it allowed Asian and even African American diplomats to live and work in such a regime, by the political expediency of identifying them as "honorary whites" in their official papers. When comparing both systems, Alexander argues that the US imprisons more Blacks both in raw number and per capita than South Africa at the height of apartheid!

The New Jim Crow - indeed!

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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an American who was found guilty of and sentenced to death for the December 9, 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has been described as "perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world", and his sentence is one of the most debated today. Before his arrest, he was an activist, radio journalist, and part-time cab driver. He was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970.

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Click Here to view an outstanding video of Professor Michelle Alexander in Chicago at Hartzell Church/The Black Star Project.

Click Here to register to see Professor Michelle Alexander in New York City on Saturday, May 21, 2011.

Click Here to purchase the New Jim Crow from Afri-Ware Books in Chicago.

DEAR BLACK AMERICA 2011

Once again black people are first to discover and last to benefit. In 2006 a black man wrote a book called Undercover Smart. In that book he told us that the Spanish players were on the move and that by the year 2015 the Spanish players will absorb, deplete and eliminate the African Americans from the game.

The year is now 2011 (5 years later)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june11/censu...

The last faction of the Spanish players (The Latinos) made it officially known to blacks in 2011 that constantly include them in their troubles that they are Spanish players and not the allies of African Americans, so stop counting us in.

The latinos solidified the Spanish players rank to 5 million strong and counting. The Spanish players desperately need to expand their consumption of land, food and water to accommodate their massive increase in numbers.

5 years have passed since Undercover Smart gave black America heads up - first notice. Undercover Smart told you that the Spanish players were on the move and that we need to prepare to defend our right to exist through intelligent strategy or perish.

The Spanish players now have the African Americans surrounded and engulfed. They have given the African Americans the ultimatum of elimination or freedom.

African Americans are being forced by free will to choose elimination or freedom even if freedom for the African American is found in voluntarily returning to slavery the African Americans must now decide.

By the year 2015 the circle of death will close forever on the African American from the elimination by the Spanish players of the African American residual resources of land, food and water.

African Americans not knowing how to provide for themselves or defend their right to exist through education are forced by free will to return voluntarily back into southern chattle slavery.

The Spanish players in 2011 have just closed ranks as one faction. They are purchasing all the homes, neighborhoods, communities and businesses left abandoned by blacks or sold to them by white Americans.

The Spanish players are seizing and staking claim and territory over all domestic jobs and occupations. The Spanish players are constantly closing the circle of death around us.

Even the European players are feeling the heat from the Spanish expansion and need for natural resources. At this very moment the European players are in a "Custer's" last stand to survive as they attempt to fend off a five pronged assault from the Iraqis, Spanish, Chinese, Afghan and North Korean players.

The European players intend to fight to the last man if need be and even if the European players by some hail Mary do succeed they will not be coming back this way. Even as I write this the European players have retreated their women and children behind their digital technology and firewall.

The Europeans are at this very moment rapidly dismantling the same domestic infrastructure that African Americans are still trying to build their future and dreams upon.

What makes this situation different from all others is the fact that this situation is not motivated by racial hatred. The Spanish players through population growth need our residual resources for their survival as well.

This is about survival.

To slow down the Spanish players advance the Chicago trade unions have closed all apprenticeship programs.The bricklayers, cement workers, drywall finishers and carpenters became the latest to suspend programs. The closing of apprenticeships hasten the African American extinction from the trades.

Meanwhile Detroit with a 89% African American presence and in a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable one last time plans to cutoff city services including road repairs, police patrols, street lights, and garbage collection in 20% of Detroit.

The mayor’s plan surrenders 20% of the city to gangs and the homeless. Blacks have already fled Detroit and other urban areas for sanctuary in the south and what awaits them in the south is the volunteer slavery of 1800’s in the 21^st century.

Georgia are locking down young black males with impunity, forcing them back into slavery and overall making blacks celebrate the confederate flag.

Southern whites are buying up houses blacks are losing and forcing blacks back on to the rural farm areas where they can find affordable housing which turns out to be run down properties whites bought and rehabbed before they entered the black areas to buy black forclosed homes. Many blacks in the south are being forced to work on farms for the first time in their lives.

In the Northern police departments roam the urban city streets like slave catchers looking for and locking up young black males and subjecting them to high or no bonds.

The Cook County Jail in Chicago sells young black male prisoners to outside collar counties in the south. They are selling black males into southern collar county slavery by labeling black males gang members and troublemakers.

In New York there are 6 agencies that dominate and determine the image you see of black actors, models or extras on television or the big screen. Black actors or actresses must pass through one of these agencies before appearing on television or the big screen.

Any and all black actors must serve as sidekicks, support or comic relief to or for white actors. Black actors must never walk in front of white actors, only behind white actors. The black women must appear acceptable to inter-racial relationships but only where the man is white and the woman is black. The most damaging neutered and castrating effect upon the black image is found in the requirement that all black men are to be shaved bald head-ed.

All the black men are required to be bald headed because for the agencies it is all a matter of perception. The long flowing mane of the lion is what makes the lion king of the jungle. The female lion is just as regal but she has no hair and therefore is perceived as weaker. A shaved/bald head is the ultimate perception of weakness.

It is by design that the agencies proliferate media images of bald-headed African American men. Images of bald-headed African American men alert and witness to the world and global media community that white men are the male lions and the black men are the female lions.

The 6 dominating agencies work in concerted effort to minimize and nullify any positive perceptions or images of black people as being smart, talented, gifted or capable of courage, leadership or respect. If however you are a black and gifted actor to the point that no matter what they attempt you still rise and shine then the agency will claim you as their meal ticket and immediately separate you from your kind.

If African Americans are thinking about escaping to traditional living, practicing Ma’at and ancestral rituals you still will need water, food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and electricity.

If African Americans are thinking about escaping to Africa or any other international destination or port then forget about it. Spain is off limits. Spain assembled a firing squad and killed over 1,000 African refuges camped outside their walls that were seeking entry into Spain.

The Italian Mafia has enslaved all incoming and escaping Africans seeking refuge in their country. If you complain about being a slave, slave wages or your living conditions the Italian Mafia will kill you.

Libya has also entered the African refuge slave trade by intercepting all vessels suspected of having African refuges aboard. Libya has also warned England against letting (quote UN-quote,) “Ignorant Africans” enter into their country. England was also warned that their global status would be vastly diminished if they continued to do so.

THE POINT IS:

Read the book. The escape to a better life is in the book. A black man wrote Undercover Smart. Read it. Believe it and trust it. Undercover Smart is to only escape route for the African American.

http://store.mubarakinter-prizes.com/undercs.html

DISCLAIMER:
This is no book advertisement. This is a real life

Undercover Smart is not a book African Americans should read, it is a book you had better read.

Read Undercover Smart or perish.

Sincerely, Enoch Mubarak
President/CEO Mubarak Inter-prizes
www.mubarakinter-prizes.com

Replies

Chicago-Midwest

Enoch Mubarak May 25, 2011 at 12:21pm

DEAR BLACK AMERICA 2011

Once again black people are first to discover and last to benefit. In 2006 a black man wrote a book called Undercover Smart. In that book he told us that the Spanish players were on the move and that by the year 2015 the Spanish players will absorb, deplete and eliminate the African Americans from the game.

The year is now 2011 (5 years later)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june11/censu...

The last faction of the Spanish players (The Latinos) made it officially known to blacks in 2011 that constantly include them in their troubles that they are Spanish players and not the allies of African Americans, so stop counting us in.

The latinos solidified the Spanish players rank to 5 million strong and counting. The Spanish players desperately need to expand their consumption of land, food and water to accommodate their massive increase in numbers.

5 years have passed since Undercover Smart gave black America heads up - first notice. Undercover Smart told you that the Spanish players were on the move and that we need to prepare to defend our right to exist through intelligent strategy or perish.

The Spanish players now have the African Americans surrounded and engulfed. They have given the African Americans the ultimatum of elimination or freedom.

African Americans are being forced by free will to choose elimination or freedom even if freedom for the African American is found in voluntarily returning to slavery the African Americans must now decide.

By the year 2015 the circle of death will close forever on the African American from the elimination by the Spanish players of the African American residual resources of land, food and water.

African Americans not knowing how to provide for themselves or defend their right to exist through education are forced by free will to return voluntarily back into southern chattle slavery.

The Spanish players in 2011 have just closed ranks as one faction. They are purchasing all the homes, neighborhoods, communities and businesses left abandoned by blacks or sold to them by white Americans.

The Spanish players are seizing and staking claim and territory over all domestic jobs and occupations. The Spanish players are constantly closing the circle of death around us.

Even the European players are feeling the heat from the Spanish expansion and need for natural resources. At this very moment the European players are in a "Custer's" last stand to survive as they attempt to fend off a five pronged assault from the Iraqis, Spanish, Chinese, Afghan and North Korean players.

The European players intend to fight to the last man if need be and even if the European players by some hail Mary do succeed they will not be coming back this way. Even as I write this the European players have retreated their women and children behind their digital technology and firewall.

The Europeans are at this very moment rapidly dismantling the same domestic infrastructure that African Americans are still trying to build their future and dreams upon.

What makes this situation different from all others is the fact that this situation is not motivated by racial hatred. The Spanish players through population growth need our residual resources for their survival as well.

This is about survival.

To slow down the Spanish players advance the Chicago trade unions have closed all apprenticeship programs.The bricklayers, cement workers, drywall finishers and carpenters became the latest to suspend programs. The closing of apprenticeships hasten the African American extinction from the trades.

Meanwhile Detroit with a 89% African American presence and in a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable one last time plans to cutoff city services including road repairs, police patrols, street lights, and garbage collection in 20% of Detroit.

The mayor’s plan surrenders 20% of the city to gangs and the homeless. Blacks have already fled Detroit and other urban areas for sanctuary in the south and what awaits them in the south is the volunteer slavery of 1800’s in the 21^st century.

Georgia are locking down young black males with impunity, forcing them back into slavery and overall making blacks celebrate the confederate flag.

Southern whites are buying up houses blacks are losing and forcing blacks back on to the rural farm areas where they can find affordable housing which turns out to be run down properties whites bought and rehabbed before they entered the black areas to buy black forclosed homes. Many blacks in the south are being forced to work on farms for the first time in their lives.

In the Northern police departments roam the urban city streets like slave catchers looking for and locking up young black males and subjecting them to high or no bonds.

The Cook County Jail in Chicago sells young black male prisoners to outside collar counties in the south. They are selling black males into southern collar county slavery by labeling black males gang members and troublemakers.

In New York there are 6 agencies that dominate and determine the image you see of black actors, models or extras on television or the big screen. Black actors or actresses must pass through one of these agencies before appearing on television or the big screen.

Any and all black actors must serve as sidekicks, support or comic relief to or for white actors. Black actors must never walk in front of white actors, only behind white actors. The black women must appear acceptable to inter-racial relationships but only where the man is white and the woman is black. The most damaging neutered and castrating effect upon the black image is found in the requirement that all black men are to be shaved bald head-ed.

All the black men are required to be bald headed because for the agencies it is all a matter of perception. The long flowing mane of the lion is what makes the lion king of the jungle. The female lion is just as regal but she has no hair and therefore is perceived as weaker. A shaved/bald head is the ultimate perception of weakness.

It is by design that the agencies proliferate media images of bald-headed African American men. Images of bald-headed African American men alert and witness to the world and global media community that white men are the male lions and the black men are the female lions.

The 6 dominating agencies work in concerted effort to minimize and nullify any positive perceptions or images of black people as being smart, talented, gifted or capable of courage, leadership or respect. If however you are a black and gifted actor to the point that no matter what they attempt you still rise and shine then the agency will claim you as their meal ticket and immediately separate you from your kind.

If African Americans are thinking about escaping to traditional living, practicing Ma’at and ancestral rituals you still will need water, food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and electricity.

If African Americans are thinking about escaping to Africa or any other international destination or port then forget about it. Spain is off limits. Spain assembled a firing squad and killed over 1,000 African refuges camped outside their walls that were seeking entry into Spain.

The Italian Mafia has enslaved all incoming and escaping Africans seeking refuge in their country. If you complain about being a slave, slave wages or your living conditions the Italian Mafia will kill you.

Libya has also entered the African refuge slave trade by intercepting all vessels suspected of having African refuges aboard. Libya has also warned England against letting (quote UN-quote,) “Ignorant Africans” enter into their country. England was also warned that their global status would be vastly diminished if they continued to do so.

THE POINT IS:

Read the book. The escape to a better life is in the book. A black man wrote Undercover Smart. Read it. Believe it and trust it. Undercover Smart is to only escape route for the African American.

http://store.mubarakinter-prizes.com/undercs.html

DISCLAIMER:
This is no book advertisement. This is a real life

Undercover Smart is not a book African Americans should read, it is a book you had better read.

Read Undercover Smart or perish.

Sincerely, Enoch Mubarak
President/CEO Mubarak Inter-prizes
www.mubarakinter-prizes.com
West

Goddess IsIs Akkebala May 20, 2011 at 6:57pm

If we are not returning back to our once Divine right mind-set, 24/7 advocacy, (globally) demanding and commanding our enslaved ancestors REPARATIONS NOW, which will support the Divine work to keep all of our people from being in these evil hells,

"we are a criminal!"

It is being in our once original Divine right mind-set, that mind-set which reveals to us how to get out of all these hells we complain about.

As long as we continue to use the oppressors profane mind-set, we are criminals, and those who do, will continue to be subjected to all of the abuse and divisive evil system.

The brainwashing European Education systems, has criminalized many of our people mind, because many of our people no longer operates mentally in our once Divine Original mind-set, that mind-set which will free us all from the oppressors system we have mastered complaining about.

Here in America, we remain at the foot of the oppressors, and that is a criminal mind to do so.

As long as we make attempts to carve out a place in America, we are criminal.

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Believing is Criminal. (Osiris/Common Sense)

Condemnation without investigation is the ultimate ignorance. (Einstein)

Truth is a treason to lies (Ron Paul)

Beloved One:

I was watching and listening to an audio back in 1986, Honorable John Henri Clark speaking about Honorable Marcus Garvey…and then some.

A sister stood up in the audience.

Sister: Honorable Clark, where can we find the Marcus Garvey Spirit…and in Who today? Is there such a person today with the Marcus Garvey Spirit, she asked?

Honorable Clarke: Marcus Garvey is a conversation. In actuality I do not see Garvey Spirit in any place, in Afrika, in the Caribbean or America . I do not see any other salvation. Either it is going to be a Garveyitte, Pan Afrikan Nationalist solution or we are going to prepare to go out of business as a people. We are to be Free or subservient people, because white people have no plans for us but for us to be subservient.
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Honorable Clarke: In all the arguments about Black woman and Black man, the main point that is forgotten is, the white man have no intention to making any of you permanently comfortable within his structure as anything but subservient, any one of you. If there is going to be any peace on earth, you like it or not, you better make peace with each other.

Hon: John Henri Clark: Those who are not about our people business must be gotten rid of.

REPARATIONS NOW, or we need to prepare to go out of the Black Afrikan people business (globally).
West

Min. W.D. Patterson May 20, 2011 at 12:07pm

True 'Dat: "'If you are not supporting the work to keep innocent Black and Latino men out of prison, 'you are a criminal!"' ~Dr. Michelle Alexander

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