African american Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.…

— Michelle Alexander

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational…

— Michelle Alexander

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it

— Michelle Alexander

All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.

— Michelle Alexander

Most clubs say they will not tolerate any forms of discrimination - that cannot be something that is just said. It needs to be…

— Eniola Aluko

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve…

— Michelle Alexander

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

— Michelle Alexander

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a…

— Michelle Alexander

“Merely reducing prison terms does not have a major impact on the majority of people in the system. It is the badge of inferiority—the…

— Michelle Alexander

For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no…

— Michelle Alexander

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before…

— Michelle Alexander

Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release, they're ushered…

— Michelle Alexander

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for…

— Michelle Alexander