Home ownership. Is in discussion with the very acclaimed scholar. Thank you for coming. We are very glad to be here in philly to begin this project and 2008 2009 okay, mostly its about chicago and detroit and then i moved to philadelphia and found out there is a story here. And then part of rewriting this book so it is a very difficult book to read from it is dense the readable. [laughter] and so what i will do is give a narrative arc that in Broad Strokes what the book is trying to do and then the conversations between professor robbins and i. So now in a typical spasm of the tree all donald trump describes the city of baltimore as a rat and rodent infested mess it was a cruel and vote to disparage the hardship of the communities of that city and in doing so it conveyed fatalistic disregard for those conditions while expressing a lack of ambition to attend to something as serious. Despite the rhetoric black poor workingclass communities is not of africanamerican indifference but marke
And weve brought out the lettuce , yes, we have here he is. Humza yousaf leaf. The question is, will the Scottish First minister last longer than our friend here . Than our leafy lettuce friend . Lettuce friend . Has his career hit an iceberg . Lets us. I dont know, the average lifetime of a lettuce after. After you pick it off the shelf. I mean , is it a week . Is it a i mean, is it a week . Is it a bit less than a week . Well, it outlasted liz truss, did it not . So that must have been at least. What is it, 49 days. Well, no, but that that was always not quite true though, because the daily star only got out the lettuce a good way into her premiership, so it didnt really outlast. Anyway, were getting into specifics. So pedantic. Yeah so pedantic. The question is, from this point on, i say, id say this lettuce will sort of be able to live pretty happily, maybe for the next week before it starts getting really, really grim and we sort of want to get it out of the office. We should say
Lets get started. Pick up on the conversation we were having last time about civil rights and the black power movement. The second reconstruction. In we think about that relation to what now is called mass incarceration. Were going to do three big things today. Talk about what mass incarceration is. Complicate some of the ways it is often talked about. We will talk about where it came from and how we ended up with the worlds biggest prison system. What that has to do with this time. The 1960s and 1970s and the second reconstruction. We will think about the role and people in prison formerly incarcerated people have played consistently as analysts and observers and critics of mass incarceration. Big and work off our way to the human level. The u. S. Incarcerates more people than anyone else in the world. In terms of absolute numbers more than 2. 2 Million People in prison, but also the rate of incarceration. Population ands 25 of the prison population. You can see how much more that is
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