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Podcast: Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)
Episode: The New Jim Crow-by Michelle Alexander: Chap. 1 (cont.)~The Birth of Mass Incarceration
Description: Early on, little effort was made to disguise the racial motivations behind the law and order rhetoric and the harsh criminal justice legislation proposed in Congress...As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. They developed instead the racially sanitized rhetoric of “cracking down on crime”-rhetoric that is now used freely by politicians of every stripe.