19 June 2019
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The “black silent majority”
Michael Fortner describes his book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, about support for draconian drug laws in the black community in the 1970s.
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In this video:
- Michael’s book on the Rockefeller drug laws, Black Silent Majority
- Critiquing Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow
- Adding a class critique to the discussion of race and crime
- Why Michael is torn over “respectability politics”
- Michael: People on both sides of the debate need to take poor black folk seriously
- Could black churches team up with Black Lives Matter?
- Could the black community ever work with Trump?
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