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.”
NBA players and fans alike have many reasons to oppose US provocations, lies and threats.
If the NBA really wants to be a game changer, why not expand "Black Lives Matter" to "Black Homes Matter”?
I came in de room wit mah head bent low pretendin’ defrenz to Ol’ blak Schmo. Sekrit Servuz say, “Boy, if’n you ain’t in no emediyit dangur
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city’s Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops.
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.
