Michelle Alexander Quotes About Middle Class

Quotes about: Middle Class

• In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Marijuana, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream big dreams. But for kids who are born in the ghetto in the era of mass incarceration, the system is designed in such a way that it traps them, often for life.

  Michelle Alexander

  Dream, Children, Mistake

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're old enough to vote. They're routinely stopped, frisked, and searched without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Men, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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