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In America, the supreme court has struck down affirmative action; the French have been rocked by riots. Why can’t we solve racial inequality?
Noel Ignatiev grew up in Philadelphia in the 1940s. He wrote in his memoir, Acceptable Men, that “from the time I was a youngster I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to revolution.” His parents had both been communists and he inherited the family business, traversing over his lifetime a variety of revolutionary groupings, from Stalinist to proto-anarchist. A man ahead of his time, he maintained a steady focus on the fight against racial oppression.
While race still matters, we would be foolish not to consider privilege primarily in terms of class.
"A Reintegration Agenda for the 117th Congress: Criminal Record Relief, Federal Benefits, & Employment" The title of this post is the title of this notable new short report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center. This blog posting at CCRC, titled "Second Chance Month: A Federal Reintegration Agenda" provides some background on the report. Here is the report's introduction: The new Congress has an opportunity to make significant bipartisan progress on criminal justice reform, including reducing barriers to successful reintegration for people with a criminal record. This agenda re...
The past week's Washington Post included this notable op-ed by Charles Lane under the headline "Here’s some hope for supporters of criminal justice reform." A focal point of the op-ed was this newly published paper by sociologist Michael Light titled "The Declining Significance of Race in Criminal Sentencing: Evidence from US Federal Courts." Here is how the op-ed discusses some key findings with a positive spin: How many more months in prison do federal courts give Black drug offenders as opposed to comparable White offenders? The correct answer, through fiscal 2018, is: zero. The rac...