But the Caribbean Sea is very big and the Atlantic Ocean is even bigger; it would amaze even you to know the number of black slaves this ocean has swallowed up
This reminds me of a chapter Christina Sharpe wrote about in their book, "The Wake." This lines up perfectly with their chapter about The Ship. The idea that the ocean holds the souls of those who were thrown overboard while being shipped to the United States to be enslaved and exploited.
From there to the shore, the water is pale, silvery, clear, so clear that you can see its pinkish-white sand bottom. Oh, what beauty! Oh, what beauty! You have never seen any-thing like this. You are so excited.
This beauty is very sad knowing the exploitation the people of Jamaica have endured in Jamaica and into the United States.
Oh, but by now you are tired of all this looking, and you want to reach your destination—
A great way to write about white ignorance and the wearing of rose colored glasses.
The media, government officials and policy advisers endlessly refer to the moral panic over crime and connect prison growth to public desire for social order.
Our society is so keen on being, "tough on crime" We don't believe in any sort of rehabilitation or growth in prison. Once in you're in, it's impossible to get out.
seven per cent are women of all races
And about 80 per cent of the female population in prison are mothers.
Ever since Richard M. Nixon’s 1968 campaign lot president on a law and order platform, the US has been home to a pulsing moral panic over crime and criminality.
All of the presidents who came after Nixon added to the mass incarceration of people of color. War on Drugs, 3 Strikes you're out, etc...