I mean, I remember once I got a DUI, which is not nearly what you went through. But you know, they make it go through a 14-week program and go to AA meetings, and like, you are entrapped into the criminal justice system, again at a very low level. But even at that level, I was like, whoa, this is awful.
We're joined now in New Orleans by independent journalist Jordan Flaherty, who was in New Orleans when the hurricane hit, returned to the city soon after being evacuated, to help with relief efforts and to report on what was happening in the streets, particularly to the poor Black communities that were most affected by the hurricane. He's won awards for his reporting on people left behind in the New Orleans city jail after the hurricane and is the author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. He's joined us many times over the years.
Driving the news: The family left Wednesday night fromChicago's Union Station and arrived in Greenwood, Miss., on Thursday morning, on the anniversary of his murder. It was a similar ride that Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, took seven decades ago to visit family in Mississippi before he was killed. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center and the National Parks Conservation Association organized the ride.
Apparently, the purpose of removing programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race or promote ideologies inconsistent with federal law is to present the American past as an unblemished landscape of positivity and perfection, to pretend that nothing wrong let alone evil has been done on our shores since our nation's founding. The point is to create a national identity that mirrors the president's own view of himself as a model of moral purity,
Today's legacy of video documentation against injustice continues as Latino organizers utilize smartphones to document ICE raids and family separations, serving as critical evidence and resistance.
The justification that Black people needed to be terrorized to prevent their revolt lost its power, as Davis says, "when it became evident that these conspiracies, plots and insurrections were fabrications that never materialized."
The Central Park Five opera offers a poignant narrative of racial injustice, vividly connectingpast injustices to present political realities, making it a powerful commentary on social justice.
