Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.ās new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book āfills a giant hole in the literature,ā illuminating the role played by āBlack elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,ā said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. āMany ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,ā said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
The author explores various social, political, and cultural sites that explore and highlight the Black pastoral experience.
In the past year or two, the proposition of defunding or abolishing police and prisons has travelled from incarcerated-activist networks into mainstream conversations.
Biden promises popular progressive policies, then quietly reneges while the corporate press turns a blind eye and falls silent.
The corporate media is second only to the police in spreading falsehoods about the nationās best known political prisoner.
āDisease poeticsā has been part of global capitalism since its emergence.
