![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The massive level of inequality that exists in urban areas where Black and brown people live is still producing generations of people lost to poverty, drugs and violence. While it does help bring people of various backgrounds and ethnicities together, and help break down barriers due to ignorance, it still does not address the real issue. These small steps toward diversity lead people to believe that racism can be defeated. Today, there are many more Black and brown faces to be found on police forces, fire departments, in schools, on television, in sports, and in entertainment. Civil rights organizations campaign heavily to increase diversity in the workplace, in politics, and in the arts. ![]() Most Americans today believe that the diversity made possible through affirmative action is helping to reduce the amount of impact mass incarceration has on Black and brown families. This chapter discusses how the status quo hinders the elimination of mass incarceration and how the system can be dismantled without laying the ground for a replacement. Liberalism, rather than lighting the way to vanquish the darkness of the Jim Crow North gave racism new and complex places to hide. Americans in the North made this history. Procedures that diverted resources in education, housing, and jobs away from poor black people turned ghettos and prisons into social pandemics. ![]()
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