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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 continued~The birth and death of Jim Crow.
Description: A new race -neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of Blacks back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could instill a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding”law and order” rather than “segregation forever.”