And, no, I’m not arguing whether Clinton and Reagan are comparable or that private prisons caused the incarceration crisis. My only point is that non- right wingers “reap the benefits of anti-blackness.”

But you see, it’s not valid until a White person says it FOR Black and Brown people.

I’m done with apologies. There need to be a dramatic reformation of this country’s drug laws and reparations for the towns, neighborhoods, cities and communities that the drug war highly affected.

Pin this on the Republicans all you want, Dems played on this fear of black criminality as well. Private prisons skyrocketed beginning in Clinton’s era. Federal sentencing got tougher and continued to be discriminatory as well.

Quick, someone write a book about it! Call it...hermmm.. the New Jim Crow?

I have two major takeaways from this:

Are we shocked? Are we supposed to be shocked by this? Disgusting.

So basically confirming what black and brown people were saying all across the country for the past 40 years.

It started earlier than the 70's, BTW.

“Yeah tell us something we don’t know.”

Obvious shit you already know, news at 11.

I’m shocked. So shocked.

Almost like the drug war was invented to replace Jim Crow.

CDC did in fact report that children who grow up in violent neighborhoods suffer trauma (though some media outlets saddled it with the unhelpful “Hood Disease” tag ), so Glazer isn’t wrong that many NFL players probably do go into the sport suffering from mental disorders.

Glazer isn’t wrong here*. There’s research that shows a black youth growing up in a blighted, urban neighborhood essentially suffers trauma that’s comparable to a soldier who’s served in a war zone, and poor, black urban youths end up making up the bulk of the NFL player pool.

Matt Barnes probably will be available for the Knicks’ head coaching gig next year, but he absolutely hates players who grab rebounds.

No, but he could have them droned without judicial review.