Mass Incarceration Archives

From Power to Freedom – Stop Mass Incarceration – 13th Amendment

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From Power to Freedom There is a US based organization, The American Leadership Forum—the ALF—whose mission it is to give power to truth. Recently its diverse membership watched a Netflix produced film entitled simply 13th. The documentary is about the incarceration of people of color, especially those who are African-Americans. The movie was important enough to have been nominated for an Academy Award recently. Some of the more influential members of the ALF attended a showing of the film 13th as a group. When queried about their feelings, Chike C. Nwoffiah, one of the members admitted...

The Immensity of Forgiveness

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The Immensity of Forgiveness The day is coming when racial prejudice will be a thing of the past. That is the direction humanity is moving and toward which every incarcerated person of color points, whether we see or understand it or not at the moment. In the meantime there are people of every color in America who are prepared, trained and willing to lead us out of the Armageddon of racially based penal confinement. Imagine that there are people around us who love so deeply that they are motivated to act from their own center of love for the justice of others. They are evolution in motion!...

The Movement of Evolution

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The Last Chess Piece – The Movement of Evolution “Honor the highest truth in the universe; it is the power on which all things depend: it is the light by which the whole of life is guided. Honor the Highest within yourself: For it too is the power on which all things depend and the light by which the whole of life is guided.” –Marcus Aurelius, from “Meditations” The best answer to the hatred, chaos, wars, climate change, economic uncertainty, the faltering of democracy and the ugliness and cruelty of mass incarceration, lies in the human ability to understand, see, grasp and...

Mass incarceration: my eyes needed to be opened!

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Supporting the African-American Soul Reading Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, has literally changed my life! Totally ignorant of mass incarceration, my eyes needed to be opened. It is appalling that 25% of African-American males languish for years in US prisons often for minor and drug-related offenses. So many are caught in the impossible situation of having to live in unbearable poverty and the white-American society has seemingly found a way to keep them out of sight and out of mind. Yet many white Americans, especially the white men queried about this issue, have never heard...