Tuesday, September 27, 2011

WHY IS THE STATE OF ALABAMA AND THE USA AFRAID TO LET MARK MELVIN READ THIS BOOK

It is easy to answer the question I asked in the title above.  America is afraid of it's past because it is also it's present. The State, and the state, are busy trying to bury that past and hide the present.  Wouldn't want anyone getting pissed off or anything.  Wouldn't want to let the word get out that prison brutality and racism are as American as apple pie (to paraphrase a certain Mr. Brown).  The trouble is that the secret is out and most of white America really couldn't care less.  Until they come for them, they will go on happily about their lives.  Well, maybe not so happily these days where the time of a growing number of even white folks, especially young white folks, is spent looking for a job and worrying about tomorrow.  Amazingly these not so well off white folks still can't get it through their head that their skin privilege and their white identification, which help them feel better knowing that others are worse off then they, is cause for a good laugh for their more affluent white brothers and sisters.  But I digress...


I found the following at the Equal Justice Initiative web site.


Alabama Prison Bans Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book That Examines U.S. Racial History

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