Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow ) about The Clintons

[Truprogressive85]

If anyone doubts that the mainstream media fails to tell the truth about our political system (and its true winners and losers), the spectacle of large majorities of black folks supporting Hillary Clinton in the primary races ought to be proof enough. I can't believe Hillary would be coasting into the primaries with her current margin of black support if most people knew how much damage the Clintons have done - the millions of families that were destroyed the last time they were in the White House thanks to their boastful embrace of the mass incarceration machine and their total capitulation to the right-wing narrative on race, crime, welfare and taxes. There's so much more to say on this topic and it's a shame that more people aren't saying it. I think it's time we have that conversation.

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[Number23]

1. Thanks for posting. Hopefully she'll write more on this.

[Divernan]

2. Author is highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer/advocate/legal scholar.

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. As an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, she directed the Civil Rights Clinics and pursued a research agenda focused on the intersection of race and criminal justice. In 2005, Alexander won a Soros Justice Fellowship that supported the writing of The New Jim Crow and accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining academia, Alexander engaged in civil rights litigation in both the private and nonprofit sector, ultimately serving as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she helped lead a national campaign against racial profiling.

Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. She has clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN and MSNBC, among other media outlets. The New Jim Crow is her fi rst book.
Awards
NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction; Constitutional Commentary Award; Emerson Award, Michael Harrington Best Book Award; 2010 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award; silver medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards: Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian) category; Finalist, Silver Gavel Award; Finalist, Phi Beta Kappa; Finalist, Letitia Woods Brown Book Award

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[jonestonesusa]

3. I'm glad to see Michelle Alexander's voice on this issue.

When it's time to vote, the Clintons work hard to cultivate black support. If Hillary Clinton becomes POTUS, I hope she will be just as energetic about developing anti-racist policies. Hillary is not Bill, so perhaps she will not embrace Bill's policies, but more scrutiny is needed. And I'm a Sanders supporter - I think that his policies have more promise to make a positive difference in all communities.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. I've been trying to make this point for many, many years now.

[JI7]

5. my problem with the Clintons is they often are far more political than they need to be

always with the political calculations. i can understand it but it seems to be THE big thing they they lose sight of just trying to get actual change .

the more recent one was concerning some gay rights issue where she gave some excuse for it which many criticized. but she should have just said SHE changed for the better on it.