The extraordinary nature of individual black achievement in formerly white domain certainly does suggest that the old Jim Crow is dead, but it doesn't necessarily mean the end of racial caste - if history is any guide, it may have just taken a different form.
タグ: black, history, achievement, nature

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I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.
タグ: believe, democracy, mirror, nature
All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.
タグ: behind, discrimination, legal, you
After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.
タグ: find, rights, lawyer, myself
Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon.
タグ: political, legal, you, life
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
タグ: crime, country, black, people
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