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The U.S. has more incarcerated than any other country

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The U.S only makes up 5% of the worlds population, but about 25% of incarcerated people are in America

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Birth of a nation brought new rituals into the kkk (burning crosses)

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In 1924 at the national democratic convention it was estimated that there were 350 Klnasman that were delegates

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People exploited the loopholes within the 13th amendment

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“mass incarceration” started in 1970

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Was the KKK created after the civil war? (or were there similar groups before?)

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As the civil rights movement was processed the crime rate rose as well

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I found it fascinating that the KKK got the idea of burning crosses from Birth of a Nation. I'd never heard of that before.

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What does burning the cross in hate to a racial group (rather than a religious group) represent?

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more than 200,000 people were arrested in the US in 5 years (80s)

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As the civil rights movement started gaining speed, so did crime rates across America

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1970 prison population was 357,292

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The doc frequently said that criminal justice spending was increased by 2-3 times. Was this nation-wide, or only in select areas of key conflict?

I also found the southern strategy to be fascinating to hear about. Listening to presidential political advisors so openly state their plans to intentionally disadvantage blacks in the name of the white vote was appalling.

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slavery can basically be legal through prison labor

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In the 70s, there were only 300k prisoners, now there are 200 million prisoners

I found it interesting that the KKK was based off a Birth of Nation Film

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Ronald Reagan said America was in the worst economical mess since the great depression and yet spent a lot of money on the police.

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Did Gerald Ford have the same views/mindset on law and order that Nixon did?

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Nixon got people to associate marijuana with hippies and heroin with black people, and then criminalized those drugs so there would be reason to attack them

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"During the Reagans administration the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer."

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Why was crack and 🤬 seen differently?

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After the election of Richard Nixon incarsseration rates increased dramatically and spending for local law enforcement doubled

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- "Rhetorical war by Nixon but literal war by Reagan"

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Is crack cheaper to get than normal 🤬? Or no, I guess my question is why did the low-income communities do crack rather than powder 🤬?

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After the 13th amendment, they would still lynch and beat people of color for little to no reason

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I was interested in the fact that activists were portrayed as criminals and arrested for minor things (like all African Americans for decades) but they turned getting put in jail into something more empowering and honorable, defeating the purpose of label "criminal"

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you got the same amount of time for one ounce of crack related to 100 ounces of powder 🤬

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The news would only show black people getting arrested and never the white people which painted them all as criminals.

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trump made a full page ad to bring back the death penalty

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Nixon started the war on crime and the war on drugs

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arrested slaves as a loop hole around the law

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Reagan supported the criminalization of crack and made it worse than 🤬 because t was cheaper and found in black neighborhoods more often

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It continuously astounds me how loopholes to the constitution enabled segregation and Jim crow to be legal and constitutional.

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Ni
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Was the loophole in the constitution intentional?

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Nixon was on drugs when the war started.

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rich got richer and poor got poorer. also crack became way stricter then its powdered form.

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the southern strategy was initially to hurts blacks more than whites.

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Reagan's campaign strategist acknowledged the inequality with tax cuts. It's remarkable how political leaders and corporations shaped the country's hatred of African Americans and it was able to be followed so blindly for so long.

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What tempted lynchings to be a thing?

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southern strategy was making white people in the south