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How white America has created a colony of incarceration for people of color
The corrupt Washington Post ^ | March 31 | Eric Liu

Posted on 04/02/2017 10:41:32 PM PDT by TBP

“American history,” he writes, “is the story of white fear, of the constant violent impulses it produces and the management and ordering of those impulses. White fear keeps the citizens of the Nation wary of the Colony, and fuels their desire to keep it separate.”

He doesn’t develop this notion systematically but that he names it at all, and so bluntly, is significant. Indeed, the long-term value of this book probably will lie less in Hayes’s survey of “the new Jim Crow” system that Michelle Alexander has described than in his nascent effort to confront and counteract the underlying force of white fear.

Hayes suggests that fear is not just an aspect of white identity; it is the very reason for it — that whiteness in America was constructed and is still maintained, through power structures such as the criminal justice system, to dominate people defined as nonwhite and to control the resulting anxiety about the possibility of rebellion.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrishayes; racism; washingtonpost
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To: TBP
I'm more than willing to assume that the majority...perhaps even a huge majority...of serial killers in this country look just like me (white male).I'm also willing to assume that the majority...or even a huge majority...of certain other crimes are committed by people who look like me.

OTOH,stats from the FBI show that with murder (just to take one crime as an example) blacks represent a portion of the total way outside their representation in the population.And for that matter they also represent a similarly huge portion as *victims* of murder.

61 posted on 04/03/2017 5:33:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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LBJ, LBJ, LBJ, LBJ, LBJ...


62 posted on 04/03/2017 5:33:34 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: TBP
When looking at the numbers and calculating the percentages remember that blacks only represent about 15% of the nation's population.

FBI Murder Stats 2014

63 posted on 04/03/2017 5:41:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: TBP

Don’t write a letter, write articles, sent this article and a point by point rebuttal to every conservative site on the net and a few middle ones too, like Fox.

Stop playing games where they make the rules.

Start writing and attacking.


64 posted on 04/03/2017 5:45:31 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: pluvmantelo

Yes. Frankfurt, not Franklin.


65 posted on 04/03/2017 5:46:58 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The country was unnaturalized.


66 posted on 04/03/2017 6:00:24 AM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: TBP

The success of Haiti has created a country of incarceration for people of color.


67 posted on 04/03/2017 6:13:02 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: TBP

I wonder what the Compost would say about these FBI stats from 2014

Regarding murder

Whites killed 2488 whites
Whites killed 0187 blacks
Whites killed 0047 “other” (Asians,perhaps?)
Whites killed 0034 “unknown”


Blacks killed 2205 blacks
Blacks killed 0446 whites
Blacks killed 0025 “other”
Blacks killed 0017 “unknown”


68 posted on 04/03/2017 6:15:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: TBP
What is a "uniform rule of naturalization"?  photo image_zpsjpz7dx2b.jpeg
69 posted on 04/03/2017 6:18:29 AM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: bushpilot2
Naturalization....was the country unnaturalized...  photo image_zpsalpz5w6s.jpeg
70 posted on 04/03/2017 6:26:03 AM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: TBP

Democrats have always been the power base for race hate doctrines, violence and systematic discrimination. They have just switched the colors around. Any white person who votes for demonrats is insane.


71 posted on 04/03/2017 7:03:15 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: CyberAnt
I am not watching it, but my first instinct was ... how many people know that it was WHITE people who rescued a lot of black people; and many of the white people paid with their lives.

That story is NEVER told.

To the contrary. It is told far too often. Every time the Civil War is brought up, that bit gets mentioned over and over and over again.

What is lost on most people is the fact that the North did not invade the South to free black people. The North invaded the South to prevent the South from having economic independence from the Washington D.C./New York axis of power.

The "free the slaves" thing was just propaganda.

72 posted on 04/03/2017 7:03:19 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TBP

unwhite americans should stop committing CRIME.... how bout that

hey how bout if crime is a reflection on how people are raised.... wanna talk about that one..???

or do you wanna talk about rap, drugs, babymommas, babydaddys....gangsta heroes.... no father input, single moms having multiple kids for $$$
yeah.... lets talk about moral decay... and INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
and nto blame whitey... and if you do....f u


73 posted on 04/03/2017 7:17:29 AM PDT by zzwhale (ho2)
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To: TBP

Those who hate America rewrite history to negatively interpret all events. Whites moving out of crime ridden neighborhoods to improve the safety of their families? Must be racism. A large proportion of blacks have criminal records? It cant be that they have committed serious crimes, the facts have to be twisted so that they are victims of white fear. Rather than twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain the obvious, perhaps they should examine why such a high percentage of blacks are criminals and change that.


74 posted on 04/03/2017 7:18:54 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, my grandpappy would always​ say that if you don't like it here there is a boat leaving every day.
75 posted on 04/03/2017 7:42:36 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: TBP

76 posted on 04/03/2017 7:44:56 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: unlearner

Thank you for referencing the Protestant work ethic.

It is important.


77 posted on 04/03/2017 8:17:14 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: BestPresidentEver

Your last statement makes no sense to me. Salvation by faith alone does not mean that the Christian is free to do anything he wants. There will always be consequences both here and here-after. Sins are forgiven, but rewards in Heaven are earned.

And in any event, the comment seems irrelevant to the topic under discussion without further explanation. I mean no offense, but I am not following your logic.


78 posted on 04/03/2017 8:19:34 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialogue with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: jonrick46

Maybe we should have a system of affirmative action for crime. Whites would be permitted to prey on blacks in the same ratio that blacks prey on whites.

Then there’d be some weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.


79 posted on 04/03/2017 8:22:54 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialogue with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: doorgunner69

Back in the 1820s-1850s there were several riots by free blacks who did NOT want to be sent to Africa.


80 posted on 04/03/2017 8:44:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( "You know Caligula?" --- "Worse! Caligula knows me!")
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