The New Jim Crow
And more African Americans are disenfranchised today due to felony convictions than in , the year the 15th amendment — which prohibits laws denying African Americans the right to vote on the basis of their race — was ratified.
This realization inspired me to start my own grassroots organization called Crack Open the Door , an organization I dedicated to freeing first time non-violent crack cocaine offenders serving life without parole. To further this cause, I reached out to civil rights organizations, men and women in Congress, reporters — but no one answered my cries for help. Alexander responded and said she believed in my cause.
I read The New Jim Crow in jail. It changed my life
If there was ever a more egregious consequence from the war On drugs, it was, in her view, the sentencing of people to life without parole for non-violent offenses. She then connected me with the American Civil Liberties Union, which produced a report on life without parole in the United States, in which I was featured.
The report was released in November , and I was granted clemency a month later. The New Jersey prison system never offered a reason for why they banned The New Jim Crow, a decision which they undid after an outcry this week. Did it make me want to fight?
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But it made me want to fight not with my fist but with my mind, my heart. Thanks to the book, I have dedicated my life to fighting for freedom.
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Not just my own, which I now have obtained, but that of others serving life sentences. People who are blind to the fact — as I once was — that the war on drugs was never against drugs, but against people of color.
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