A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
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The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.
タグ: profession, how, problem, teachers
It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.
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We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
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Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.
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While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.
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