David Levering Lewis - After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of sch

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

- David Levering Lewis

topic: Jim Crow, Stunning, Criminal Justice System, Gulags