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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

Michelle Alexander
Race, Jim Crow Laws, Groups
Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.13, The New Press

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Michelle Alexander
Jim Crow Laws, Age, Mass Incarceration
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

Mark Levin
Christian, Jim Crow Laws, Black
"Mark Levin: Obama 'A Nihilist, A Narcissist And An Extremist;" Warns "We Are Going To Get Hit Again'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 05, 2015.

I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

Ron Paul
Jim Crow Laws, Vote, Law
"Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 8, 2009.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

Rand Paul
Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Anna Deavere Smith
Believe, School, Jim Crow Laws
"Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Corrine Brown
Florida, Jim Crow Laws, Two

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

Rand Paul
Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Practice
"Rand Paul attempts to clarify" by Steve Benen, washingtonmonthly.com. May 20, 2010.

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