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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.


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KEYWORDS: chrishayes; racism; washingtonpost
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To: TBP

What’s the complaint? If getting an education is “acting white”, then being incarcerated is exactly what they are aiming for and they are succeeding.


41 posted on 04/03/2017 2:17:31 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: TBP

I’ve read the whole book. Ignores completely the missing black dad, also ignores black on black crime, which stems from missing black dad.

Author is Harvard grad, that explains much.


42 posted on 04/03/2017 2:21:13 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: TBP

Small proportion of the population commits a distinct disproportionate percentage of crimes, including assault and murder and it is white folks fault?
What race baiting horse crap./


43 posted on 04/03/2017 2:54:22 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: TBP

I was brave enough to read the whole thing. It reads like a high school book report written by some snobby, intellectual with a thesaurus, trying to impress his equally snobby, intellectual teacher. You probably know the one. The kid that thought he was smarter than he was, that brown-nosed the teacher into an ‘A’.


44 posted on 04/03/2017 3:01:29 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: TBP

>>that whiteness in America was constructed

So, a person is “born gay” and “born transgender”, but “whiteness” has to be constructed?

But, I get it. When they say “whiteness” they don’t actually mean skin color. They mean a person who obeys the law, acts responsibly, contributes more than they take from society. These “whiteness” people lock up criminals and shun the Takers and that makes elite Progs who live behind gates sad.


45 posted on 04/03/2017 3:03:28 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Angels27
Oh, but don't you know?? White society issues laws that either 1) Only blacks can break, or 2) are only enforced against black people, since everyone breaks the law equally.

You know, like drugs, child support enforcement, and resisting arrest.

I'm waiting for the day that some deranged liberal makes the case that the higher incidence of "resisting arrest" among blacks is due to the "natural resistance fostered by the latent memories of the slave mindset".

46 posted on 04/03/2017 3:06:12 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: LibWhacker

>>The elephant in the room is Why People of Color Are Unable to Live Like Civilized People. But nobody wants to face that.

Because answering that question brands you as a racist. Even asking it makes you suspect. That is the problem that faces anthropologists every day of their career.


47 posted on 04/03/2017 3:08:46 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: TBP
WaPo, explain to me why DC is such a cesspool.

48 posted on 04/03/2017 3:09:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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To: BestPresidentEver
The difference here is religion. We can’t deal with these issues directly because the majority wants salvation by faith alone to be the answer to all problems.

What, precisely, does this have to do with anything?

49 posted on 04/03/2017 3:29:34 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

They couldn’t care less about the long term problems that results from their importation and not being able to fully assimilate.

quite simply put, bingo...


50 posted on 04/03/2017 3:59:29 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: TBP

And now for a quick look at African tribal history for comparison ...


51 posted on 04/03/2017 4:12:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: TBP

“White fear”.
Something new. Are we supposed to feel guilty over that too?


52 posted on 04/03/2017 4:19:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: TBP

Boy, the author of the book (not the article) has an issue with white guilt. He should move back to NYC where he can live as a minority. I love the first reply to the article:

zepplant69
7:07 AM EDT
“white America?? more like white liberal America who love poor black people so much they keep them poor and incarcerated in the inner cities....where else would the demokrats get their voting base from if they didn’t keep black people poor and incarcerated??”

Also, Prisons are the new psych wards. That is a major problem.


53 posted on 04/03/2017 4:25:14 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: TBP

Here’s some racism for you:

Don’t steal.
Don’t murder.


54 posted on 04/03/2017 4:26:27 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: TBP
As a white man, 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.

And there is your money shot. Fear is the REASON for white identity. Yeah. Right. Sure. What a freaking idiot. That you want your wife to be able to walk home safe at night without being raped, or your children to walk home safe from school without being abducted, is the REASON for white identity.

As if a white New York billionaire has the same identity as a white West Virginia coal miner. Do these jackasses listen to what they say, or are they just brain dead. I know the answer. They know that anything and everything they say against white people will be embraced and repeated by the race baiting scum MSM to please their Democrat masters. There is a reason I have no liberal friends. They only run from immensely stupid to dripping evil.

55 posted on 04/03/2017 4:28:43 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.it is hugh and series)
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To: TBP

It’s a wonder they can force themselves to accept the government handouts and freebies largely paid for by white taxpayers.

If America is so horrible why don’t they get out now?

There is plenty of room in Africa and the mid-east where they won’t have to live with the terrible whites and white culture.


56 posted on 04/03/2017 4:35:30 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the illegals & muslims.)
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To: TBP

The only “colony” white america created for people of color is Liberia. IMO
We could send every felonious person of color there rather than putting them in jail. How many do you think would make that choice. My guess zero.

When you come here or are born and live here there are a set of standards, laws, you are required to live by. Don’t like them leave or go back. Violate them expect to be incarcerated. TS.


57 posted on 04/03/2017 4:39:09 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff in town.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I’ve read the whole book. Ignores completely the missing black dad, also ignores black on black crime, which stems from missing black dad.

All your fault, by the way.../s


58 posted on 04/03/2017 4:41:07 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: TBP

Simply put to blacks and everyone else ..if you can’t do the time, dom’t commit the crime. People must learn to behave in a civilized manner, hence the phrase “civilized world”. Mutually decided upon penalties, legal and societal, exist for those who cannot or will not live within the boundaries of society. If a race/culture appears to be disproportionally represented by the judicial system, perhaps an analysis of the cultural “norms” and behaviours of that race/culture should be reviewed BEFORE blindly assuming the issue is with society as a whole, rather than a problem indemic to that race/culture.


59 posted on 04/03/2017 4:43:59 AM PDT by kschockeynut87 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my GOD, my family and my country.)
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To: TBP

The story is REALLY how the Democrat created, run and controlled government plantation society (government dependency societies) helped destroy the “black” family, created dependency on the government largess, over independence and work, creating the environment where criminal activity was “better employment” than what the government plantation produced.


60 posted on 04/03/2017 5:26:49 AM PDT by Wuli
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