#20BooksOfSummer20 The New Jim Crow
Finished: 23.06.2020
Genre: non-fiction
Rating: A
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Conclusion:
This book was on my bookshelf for a few years.
But the cover was so confronting…I kept putting off reading this book.
Then the tragedy on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis….happened.
As I listened to many experts discussing this crisis…
David Simon was interviewed.
A Former Baltimore Sun crime reporter, David Simon is is also the creator of both the Baltimore-based show, The Wire (2002).
Simon was asked what is the first thing US must do to start improving the systemic racism in USA.He was the ONLY person who mentioned: “Stop the war on drugs”.
That was the trigger to finally learn more about this strategy.
This is the emergence of a new caste system—a system of social excommunication that has denied millions of African Americans basic human dignity.
“The New Jim Crow” is an eye-opener….#MustRead.
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I need to read this one too!
Powerful book supported by intensive research…and so well written.
I listened to the audio book on morning walks…then read the chapters on Kindle.
I was shocked to read how after 1965….white supremacy was desperate to keep
African Americans a second class. So they created ‘The War On Drugs’.
#MustRead….it is very accessible.
I’ve read a little about the war on drugs and its effects here from other books dealing with incarceration (American Prison is a great one on this topic) but I don’t know enough about it. It is really shocking and upsetting and is very misunderstood by many, I think. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this one!