The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus
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She has connected all of the dots!! I have always lived in the areas she's describing. I have been illegally searched at least 20 times and the only reason I am free today is probably because I didn't start smoking weed until a couple of years ago. NOW THAT WE KNOW it is our duty to build awareness. There are so many innocent young men who look exactly like me IN CAGES... who deserve to be home with their families. WE ARE HUMAN!!! Michelle Alexander deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. She is so bold and passionate and makes the most complicated scheme in History seem simple!!!
Nobel Peace Prize?? Her?? You are joking...Right?? Her "scholarship is quite shoddy and so simple to poke huge wholes through it!! THe racism industrial complex is crumbling under the weight of the huge improvements since the 1960s that those earning their livings off it are jacking up the lies and falsehoods!!
Brad Hamilton She got her JD from Stanford and you can barely form a sentence.
Yes.
@@bradhamilton9038 When you say that Her "scholarship is quite shoddy and so simple to poke huge wholes through it!!, you must then proceed to poke the huge holes,otherwise we are left to wonder how to fill the huge hole in your head.
Good for you for not touching drugs. I don't understand why people would still purposely smoke weeds when they know they are being targeted.
Michelle Alexander's book is a great book. I am a philosophy student at CSUS and I read this book last year at my local junior college and had to write an argumentative essay on it. Now working on a second essay for a course this semester at Sac State. Trying to do my part and raise awareness!
aweseome. keep at it. As she says: the USA needs a Human Rights Movement.
Sounds awesome 👏
pass me it
Thanks for taking this seriously. It is a real problem and needs to be constantly addressed. Should be taught in schools, not just colleges.
This movement will take a serious radical conscious shift of all Americans- it worth it!
This TedTalk and her book “The New Jim Crow” need to be required viewing/ reading, seriously.
I agree
She came to our city Bradley , i have an autographed book . Woooooow . Mind blowing
Not only do I agree, but am including it in my US history classes. My students have been horrified about Jim Crow and voter repression of the South and then I share excerpts from Michelle Alexander's book to show we are living in this situation still.
@@roberturkofsky7648 I'm including it in my Correctional Systems course starting in January!
While social class can be earned, social caste is something you're born into, and I'm glad she touched on that.
jabberwolf she says "caste-like" system. Not precisel a caste.
@jabberwolf I think his comment went over your head....
barbaro267 you are brainwashed
@jabberwolf and you obviously have no dea that she made great effort to show you the effects of a caste system.....
That is the definition of those terms, yes.
You don't have to be black and in prison to be mistreated in America. Being black is enough. I am a black man who have not been arrested for any kind of crime and have caught hell all of my life. It is hell out here for a black man period. I can't even imagine what is must be like for the brothers and sistas that have been incarcerated.
+Thomas Davis Hi Thomas I'm a white man, father of a mix guy and I agree with you. My ex-wife (who happens to be black but for me she is a "woman" and I should say with some humor "women are all the same " lol),use to say "I was black before you" which means I became aware of racism when my baby was born. I could witness and overheard so many racist statements. I just consider racist people (other than players from an opposite team), people who don't have the guts for just feeling good with themselves and have to feel superior for something who is so stupid like the color of their skin and historically they have to get some kind of support system in order to make more money from free or almost free labor. We must do educate minorities and use the law against the real criminals: white collar bandits who can make millions of profits selling guns and holding private facilities for exterior and interior wars and politically correct people that makes their money with the people who needs to work and get payed low wages because don't have enough education or possibilities.
I agree with Thomas Davis.
Native American's and Mestizo's go through hard times too as well as Jews and Irish Whites.
Look at the victimhood olympics on display here, lol, it's enough to bring tears to a glass eye.
matthew mann yeah...did you see all those stories about the Jews being shot by cops? Or about all the loan discrimination and predatory lending? NO, YOU DIDN'T.
PRIVATELY OWNED PRISONS is the biggest part of the problem!
What do you suggest. Your already indebt govt pay for them? Does that not mean more taxes?
wouldn't the criminals be the biggest problem? no criminals = no prisons
K SS I believe they should be made knowledgeable of what turns them into a criminal besides the color of their lives.
You are so right. It’s true, “No Criminals, No Prison”. That is what people are taught to believe. But to keep private prisons in business, they have to target someone. Many towns have been built to support these prisons.
@Terry Summers Sounds to me like you yourself have a Very Low IQ
*Her:* "We need a mass awakening"
*2020:* Let me introduce myself
We need to make this video go viral! This message and her book are so powerful. She gave the prescription many years ago that is occurring now and will hopefully continue.
I've had this book sitting in my re-read shelf for so long, I have no idea why I've been neglecting it. After this I've gotta pick it up.
In my humble honest personal opinion, this lady right here, Michelle Alexander, wrote the most thoughtful, researched, inspired and important book of the 21st century so far. Please do yourself a favor and read THE NEW JIM CROW. You may very well be a changed person by the end. And then, you'll have to act upon it...
I am impressed with the heart and mission Professor Alexander. I just wish that more people would listen and take heed. It's sad that tens of millions of jobs would be lost just to right the wrongs of our society.
Those were not dignified jobs in the true sense. Most were being paid to dehumanize people.
Thank you, Dr. Alexander. Blaqs always knew there is a war upon us. This road, this rocky road will one day be a road well paved. We will fight and continue to fight.
Michelle Alexander is a Dynamic speaker! her research is extraordinary. i wish i could borrow her knowledge for my own use and apply it to overcoming problems!
Why can't you?
rebecca lima the application of leaned knowledge is a different approach and skill to gain. Not unlike treefelling profession, technical skills vs learning from failure. Carpenters publishing how to books, yet never write about how much wood they wasted during their practice. In short your answer: is I can apply learning from masters, yet being busy in educational events is common, being productive is the real challenge!
Indeed, this is a cause for attention and action.
I am so happy that I was raised by parents, who did not sugar coat life lesson, and at 72, I thank you.
I love you Ma'am.Many Many Blessings.I shall do my Part.
I love you, Ms. Alexander. You have a truly beautiful heart!
Jay Z had a line in a song, "I do this for my culture
To let 'em know what a n***a look like...when a n***a in a roaster
Show 'em how to move in a room full 'o vultures"....every time I she her, that line comes to my mind...She sexy, she smart, she's patient with her argument and she's focused enough, capable enough to cast a wide net when people try and take the argument in ways that make us look bad and she pulls them back on course with ease and grace. Beautiful to watch her work flow....
Skillful and blessed indeed. A very clear voice for us.
Almost done with your book!! Love you, this woman is so amazing!!!!
Yet, the blacks won't change themselves but keep beggin' n beggin' and blamin' da Whiteay.
I swear I wish almost everyone who's in this comment section were in the Senate. This movement is so necessary.
Danielle Johnson, people in the Senate do no give a damn. These bastards make the law, but not for themselves.
I cannot believe this incredible talk only has 6,450 views after 7 months. We are none of us free until we are all free. Talks like this and others on white privilege, historical bias, etc. should be required in schools. There is so little understanding from those with privilege and that has to change if we are ever to be truly free.
I agree, put a lot of privileged people are complacent in their carefully portrayed lies.
+Ebone Galloway but.
people are afraid to face the truth
So someone who has murdered/committed a mass crime should be treated the same as me, someone who has not committed that crime? They should not get a punishment?
I read her book years ago. I have it at work and my co workers have read it. I also encouraged my family to read her prolific book.
Spot on information we all need to hear this.
I love this woman.
no
You know she is misleading to the point of outright lying??
@@bradhamilton9038 I am going to start reading her book on hoopla but why do u say that?
She's great, *The New Jim Crow* is harrowing. So excited! She's in Milwaukee tomorrow!!
Thank you for your impassioned words and all the work you have done toward this movement. As you yourself said this is rooted
In something much deeper than criminal justice. It is my belief that white America will never join this fight. No, finally we have been isolated,
Extracted from the American consciousness, a by gone struggle, a problem solved, our final resting place.
Incredible Talk. Let us open our minds and hearts to what she has to say!!
How about taking responsibility for your own actions instead of blaming everybody and their mama?
Michelle Alexander should be the head of the Human Rights Commission!
She is incredible,I'm looking forward to reading her book.
I was impressed with the level of commitment in which she delivered this talk. I am a believer you are preaching to the choir on this one. But it takes guts to stand for what you believe when so many want to cover their head in the sand and act as if this ish ain't real.
Thank you michelle for touching on this important subject. Brings me awareness in this situation we are facing.
she did far more than touch on it she wrote a long deep and well researched book explaining this in great detail. The New Jim Crow. I love that she managed to get an idea down to 20 mins but there is so much more not spoken.
When I started watching this video I thought to myself what bullshit is this but now that I have watched the whole thing I have to admit that sadly she is right in many ways
Did you pull those imaginary statistics from your ass? I ask because they are shitty.
Jimmy Mags Most definitely not but nice guess
OK great , now that we established that you have your own opinions , please tell us what M Alex said that you agree with .
Check out her book "The New Jim Crow".
In it, she breaks down in detail just about every piece of legislation, Supreme Court decision, Criminal Justice initiative, and other well-cited fact and piece of stark reality that is related to what she is speaking about. This TedTalk is barely the tip of the iceberg.
Can you tell us specifically what it is you agree with
Beautiful !! So thankful for this!
I want to thank Michelle Alexander for writing The New Jim Crow. Absolutely life-changing. Thank you.
Same here! I read it when it came out and it’s still one of my favorite books (social worker nerd). I recommend it to everyone
I reading it right now. It is an amazing book.
I want to hear someone talk about the business of prisons as part of the capitalist system as well as quotas from police departments.
God have mercy...She exposes "America the Great"...so..so well...God bless you and I'm on your side.....samuel Hughes III.
Lady, you are Amazing. Well said. You are true.
As powerful and informative and impassioned as her speech is, things have not changed. The situation has snowballed out of control. Where is the empathy? Where is the compassion for human life that’s needed to put an end to racism?
Michelle Alexander's Book the "New Jim Crow" Is Incredible!
michelle kills every lecture goddamn
i love this woman. Michelle Alexander is the Truth.
Just brilliant. Is there a transcript of these remarks available, please...?
"Racism is a business"!! Wow!! What an eye-opener!! I will not forget that quote and I will carry it on the front of my brain as I go through my day. WOW!!
Great talk, thank you.
Great video! Thanks!
I grew up in the suburbs and when I graduated from college moved to Harlem, NY. At the time, my new neighborhood was a mixed bag of college students, beautiful brownstones, and historically designated streets. One day when I emerged from the subway, I noticed that there were always luxury cars double parked and that people darted from those cars into a particular building. Then I began to see this phenomenon repeated every day as I emerged from the subway. I was young and didn't know what I was seeing. It was shocking to see that ALL those people who jumped from their cars and ran into that building were white. They were affluent people who bought and used drugs at an alarming rate. This was in 1982.
The ear lobes of some of these commenters have clearly fallen off. I apologize for your condition. Let me tell you what she said. Regardless of crime rates, whether they are low, or high, the rate of incarceration has quintupled. That's what the statistics will show. This is not just a Black woman complaining. Whether people who look like her commit more crimes or fewer, they are still disproportionately incarcerated. Explanation, please? You dummies.
Very easy explanation. The people who live in poor communities with high crime rates, and who want the better opportunities for their children, need to move from those communities as fast as possible.
Some of those communities have many abandoned houses. Those people fled the violence because, if they stayed, conditions would have destroyed their lives and those they love as well.
StephenNu9
Commit lots of crimes get disproportionately incarcerated. Not that hard to understand.
+Kurt Daluege ... you listen to absolutely nothing she said. I am confident you didn't even watch it. Stop commenting when you did not watch it.
Blacks are several times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites, even though studies have shown they use at the same right. Thats just one example where punitive laws are disproportionately applied to minorities, even when it comes to laws that shouldnt even exist in the first place. If that doesnt bother you, its because youre a horrible person who lacks empathy. I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
Michelle Alexander , wrote the book on The New Jim Crow. So TRUE!!
I LOVE this woman
Read her The New Jim Crow!
Just read. BRILLIANT!!!!
She's too awesome!
I read Mrs Alexander book the new Jim crow..the best book in the world..
I love her attitude and her concern parent.
Wow Michelle Alexander's talk was very powerful. If you are not swayed by her rational, moral, sympathetic and well researched argument then you must have a heart of stone.
Yori B Or a high IQ
She is amazingly brilliant
How does this not have millions of views?
Now, why isn't the NAACP doing things such as what Michelle Alexander is doing. They have the funding.
...because the NAACP is just another corporation - it benefits and privileges these capitalists that own it. irregardless of their supposed "mission". it's all about the money - nothing revolutionary/radical about it.
There is a lot that they've done. This monster is a lot bigger then just speaking about certain focused issues.
logistics, logistics, logistics
Yes, but the NAACP get their funding from some of the enemies of our community.
The bigger question is why are you pointing fingers as to who is supposed to do what. that is counter productive.
The truth is uncomfortable to talk about.
exactly!
more people need to see this
THE MOST PROFOUND INFORMATION EVER SPOKEN ABOUT THE TRUTHS OF THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM AND ITS PRISON INDUSTRY.
THANK YOU
So important and truthful. She didn’t even touch on the cost to families while their loved ones are locked up. Example is the transfer of wealth from mostly poor families to telecommunications corporations via ridiculously expensive prison call rates just to stay in touch. It’s a sad state.
Thank you Ms. Alexander
She is my hero
same
Have you matured in the last 3 years
@@jimmymags6516 🤣 lets hope so
"A war on drugs so the police can bother me instead of war on poverty" (2pac)
I love this woman!
I love this amazing, intelligent woman!
I admire this person.
Powerful, comprehensive and well laid out perspective.
Tragic and intolerable situation.
A fine point in question is whether the current injustice is set up knowingly to disempower African-Americans, or is it set up to garner votes? I am an Australian, so forgive me for sharing an opinion but...
I reckon it's due to the macho tactics of political candidates, that speak about being a tuff leader who will protect the middle class by being tuff on crime... Then the regular targets for drug felonies become victims to this - the cops get their statistics to show more arrests. Basically I am saying the thrust behind this horrible system may not be directly racist, but indirectly racist, by being callous to the majority of people who's liberty is being stolen.
I would be inspired by leader who came out as a champion for restorative justice, social equality, support and opportunity as a formula for healthy society. This would be cool!
Thank you for this clear picture of the current incarceration socially disastrous policies
I’m reading her book
The USA is a VERY scary country -one of the very least civilized places on the planet. If a culture can be judged based upon how it treats is most vulnerable citizens, then I say the USA ranks very low indeed on the list of "civilized" (ie, possessing basic civility) cultures on the planet. I live in Canada, and yes I realize that we have many of the same problems, only to a lesser degree... but still I am hesitant to consider our two countries as being in the same class when it comes to basic civility and being people-friendly places to live. WHAT CAN BE DONE to change this?? I say lots - and people like this brave, articulate young lady are leading the way!! Social change is a long and difficult process, but it IS possible.
She was magnificent!! Bravo!!
“The USA is a VERY scary country -one of the very least civilized places on the planet.” lol. Go to Africa, go to Germany after they demolished their wall. Look at how they are doing, not to mention I don’t think any other country has freedom of speech, guess who does? AMERICA!!!
@@rcmpspecialagentstraightmcool Ok...let's say least civilized "developed" or First World country then.. including Germany which, despite their highly disturbing resurgence of the Far Right, has many things still going for it. As for freedom of speech, plenty of countries have that to the degree the usa does. Consider that 73 million USA citizens voted for Herr Donald in the recent election he still lost very soundly (by 6 million votes), which in effect means that almost a third of eligible voters (235 million in 2020) chose as their national leader a Maniac who has been documented to have told thousands and thousands of blatant lies in his 4 year rule of chaos and insanity. Doesn't sound very civilized to me!!
We need to start reforming by getting people guilty of non-violent crimes out of jail, and make those a non-jailable offense (if there is such a word).
release 4 out of 5?
YES!
Yep , send em to your town
Great speech! But her necklace being crooked is making my neatness go crazy.
QUEEN MICHELLE ALEXANDER, THE GREAT!
Poorly titled video. This topic has everything to do with the corruption of the criminal justice system and nothing to do with the future of race in America, if you take everything she says as true.
+doedicurus, if you pay more attention, the topic is exactly that: in "America", _the past _*_is_*_ the future of race._
Bazompora Ah, so you're saying the majority are yet again oppressing black rights by making them commit the crimes that make them go to prison? Of course. Excellent breakdown of her speech.
+doedicurus, I am nowhere saying that. Nor is she.
Bazompora No, I realize you equivocated on your nature of disagreement, perfectly content on keeping it that way. Why even say anything if you are not willing to communicate?
+doedicurus, because I am willing to communicate. But if you say: "you're saying [insert fabrication]", then what more do I have to say than "no, I am not"?
Nobody said Blacks are _made to commit crimes._ What is being said is that the majority is content with *not preventing* Blacks from going astray, as they _do_ do for Whites, and then *making Blacks go to prison* and *taking away their civil rights* for the pettiest of crimes.
amazing talk
Here we are. Where do we go from here? How did we arrive at this point? Innocent people who were enslaved!
This is a really good video that provides a LOT of insight into why the prison system and criminal justice system in the US is extremely flawed.
However, I would like to point out that the population in 1850 was just over 17 million (incl. slaves), just over 5.2% of today's total population, meaning that although there are a ridiculous number of blacks imprisoned, the statistic is barely comparable to slavery because of the massive population boom. U.S. population grew nearly 20x in the time period between 1850 and 2018 -- we would need to compare percentages in order for this to be effective.
In addition, the NAACP reported that 2.3 million African-Americans were imprisoned in 2014, though the 1850 census stated that over 3 million were enslaved.
It is important to be objective in our measurements and not report exaggerated facts, especially if we are to present this issue in a light that is both pertinent and realistic. Many thanks.
Did you include the people on parole and probation in that eqaution?
Parole and Probabtion operate as "open air" prisons, and folks usually on it, cant vote, jury duty, etc.
Her work was very thorough, informing and complete.
"We've got to awaken from this color blind slumber we've been in". Excellent.
Just got your book The New Jim Crow. I wish every American would read this.
This queen is the truth!
anyone taking sociology class needs to watch this to do homework?? post the answer here. thank you
PHENOMENAL SPEECH. Well articulated & proved all of her points completely. I was already aware of these issues before the video & am so pleased to see such a well put together descriptive speech of just how bad & deeply seeded these problems truly are in America. If you still haven't figured out there is a problem here then you have a special type of chosen blindness & I'm not sure that's curable. Im a white girl & ive seen this happening to minorities for a decade now but its been happening basically from the beginning of Americas history. America was built off the backs of minorities yet at the same time has DESPISED them as if they were ruining the country. We have dared tell them to "go back to Africa then" despite them being born on American soil who's ancestors invented most of what the history books have credited to some white guy. We say that despite the fact that most of our own ancestors rode into America off the Mayflower yet its never thrown back in our own faces. Its insane the level of hypocrisy thats become normalized & no one thinks a damn thing of it. I truly hope to see the day things truly change in America & I'll be dammed if i ever become part of that problem. United we stand & we already have all the ambition, strength & manpower we need to make change happen. We just have to stop throwing rocks at each other & face those who are feeding off the division.
Thank you, at least you realize that your only getting low hanging fruit. It's the elite that are set for life.
Well said
i love her, i got to get her book. Shes on Hidden Colors Series
This video hurt my brain!
❤️
She makes very valid points. This is the problem when you have "prisons for profit". What we need is institutions that promote real reformation, not just bullshit rhetoric about reformation. If we seek to reform society while they are incarcerated for crimes, and truly give people a "second chance" instead of anticipating their return to the institution, then and ONLY THEN maybe will we make some real progress in this country.
I love this woman..she hit the nail into head..
we educate the public. learning to read and write can take people anywhere. go to the library, when you get stopped and frisked with science books the cops arent going to have anything on you.
It's 2020 ... where has this amazing leader been for the past seven years? Who stifled her and how?
we need to completely remodel our justice system and our society
beautiful
She's right
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I would like to know her sources.
PERIOODDDTTTTTT
the only benefit of equality is to the oppressed & until the oppressor can see some benefit for himself in another's equality things will remain as they are