African americans Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Nine Southern states adopted vagrancy laws - which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to blacks -…

— Michelle Alexander

After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy,…

— Michelle Alexander

“the shrewdest and most powerful anti-Black criminals have legalized their criminal activities, have managed to define their crimes of slave trading and enslaving and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws, which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to blacks.

— Michelle Alexander

“Black-on-black crime’ is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“New York lawmakers stripped free Blacks of the right to own property, and then they denigrated “the free negroes of the colony” as an…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out…

— Afrika Bambaataa

“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“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