Don't know how many of you saw the recent #ACLU report on marijuana busts. It revealed (no revelation to me) that Black people are almost 4 times more likely to get jammed up with a pot arrest than persons of no-color. As I suspect, many of you dear readers of all persuasions -- that don't live on the Museum Mile, Brooklyn's Gold Coast or Nassau's North Shore, etc. -- do not find that NEWS. But it's certainly newsworthy!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Also NEWSWORTHY was a Village Voice article on ex-NYPD Officer Clifford #Rigaud. He's Haitian-American and Muslim. You'd expect he'd be a guy sorta desired to be kept on the job in our ground zero conscious city. Nah, no such luck. He didn't like the way the "nonexistent quota" system was working against him; he stood up and the brass finally shut him down last week and terminated his ass.
Let's review: (... to be continued #thenewjimcrow #newjimcrow)
Sunday, June 9, 2013
THE NEW JIM CROW
Don't know how many of you saw the recent #ACLU report on marijuana busts. It revealed (no revelation to me) that Black people are almost 4 times more likely to get jammed up with a pot arrest than persons of no-color. As I suspect, many of you dear readers of all persuasions -- that don't live on the Museum Mile, Brooklyn's Gold Coast or Nassau's North Shore, etc. -- do not find that NEWS. But it's certainly newsworthy!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Also NEWSWORTHY was a Village Voice article on ex-NYPD Officer Clifford #Rigaud. He's Haitian-American and Muslim. You'd expect he'd be a guy sorta desired to be kept on the job in our ground zero conscious city. Nah, no such luck. He didn't like the way the "nonexistent quota" system was working against him; he stood up and the brass finally shut him down last week and terminated his ass.
Let's review: (... to be continued #thenewjimcrow #newjimcrow)
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