Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
Humph, an’ to think dey made “Birth ob de Nation“ spreadin’ dat filth— dat rotten disinformation— I bet dis what shrinks mean wit dey word, “projekshun?”
If you painted “Black Lives Matter” on a wall to advocate against police violence, that could be prosecuted as terrorism.
When a capitalist governor of an imperialist nation’s central bank says alternatives to the US dollar are necessary, big change is afoot.
The United States is based on a system of racial capitalism that endures to this day.
Black abolition and Native decolonization have the unique capacity to end the “conquistador settler U.S. nation” and make way for something else.
