Featured Speakers/Commentators: Henrietta J. Burroughs and Professor Michelle Alexander
Summary: It’s disturbing, it’s eye opening and it’s unforgettable.
In this compelling interview, legal rights scholar Michelle Alexander talks about her eye opening book:
The New Jim Crow
Mass incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander Henrietta J. Burroughs
In this interview with talk show host Henrietta J.Burroughs, Alexander explains why she thinks America has developed a new caste system based on race, how
the criminal justice system uses America’s prisons as a form of racial control and why it’s a moral outrage to keep viable young men in the cages that exist in
America’s prisons.
This thought provoking interview presents information that will be as disturbing and as dismaying as the evidence and conclusions presented in her book.
Listeners might disagree with some of her conclusions, but they will not forget what she says or the conviction with which she says it.
This interview was taped on Monday, April 26, 2010.
To download this show and see the show description on the radio4all.net news website, click here.
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