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No Apology Until Abolition: Redressing The Ongoing Atrocity Of Slavery, Brandee Mcgee
No Apology Until Abolition: Redressing The Ongoing Atrocity Of Slavery, Brandee Mcgee
San Diego Law Review
There are currently more Black adults under correctional control than there were enslaved at the height of slavery. Despite Black Americans making up only 12% of the domestic population, states imprison them at more than five times the rate of White Americans. In California, the ratio is even higher: the “Black/white disparity [is] larger than 9:1.” Although many White Americans are also imprisoned, Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow argues that these White prisoners are “collateral damage” to mask a racialized prison-industrial complex (PIC)—with mass incarceration as the main feature.
In 1865, after decades of activism by the abolitionist …