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The history of white supremacist, racist systems have led to Black intergenerational fatigue. The impact of Black fatigue is not only on Blacks but also on society. The racist system is not just literally killing Black people; it is tearing the whole nation apart.
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Markets only create genuine freedom of opportunity if everyone has the chance to play.
When unchecked markets leave too many people too far behind, they destroy the
freedom of opportunity that is fundamental to their own legitimacy.
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Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of
wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to
multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.
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The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high
ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories
to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed
the document, but they were outnumbered. It is representative of the contradiction and conflict between America’s original sin and its original promise that still courses through our lives and politics today.
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I was in my late twenties and about to start my fourth year at the SPDC when I met Walter McMillian. His case was one of the flood of cases I’d found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. The state had nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest-growing condemned population in the country, but it also had no public defender system, which meant that large numbers of death row prisoners had no legal representation of any kind.
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