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1330: Prison uprisings and self-emancipation / Adofo Minka

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on his article "Spirit of Self-Emancipation Continues to Rise at the St. Louis City Justice Center" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen processes his reaction to the greatest cosmic blunder. https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/spirit-self-emancipation-continues-rise-st-louis-city-justice-center

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Alex We've. This is hell.

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Alex, we are getting a lot of requests for you to reveal the music before we go on air,

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tell people what we played before we went on air, tell people what we played before we went on air.

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So what was the music that you just played?

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As Dorothy Ashby's, I keep playing it too, those Dorothy Ashby's,

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the fantastic jazz harp of Dorothy Ashby.

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Yeah, so I'm going to try to get you, do you keep track of this?

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Because a lot of people have been asking me what song you played before each show.

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Oh, I don't. Sorry, let's keep track on my mic button. No, I don't.

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Okay. All right. So maybe we'll do that from now on somehow.

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Live in the United States where the law is far too often the crime.

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This is hell back in January of 2020 when the coronavirus outbreak had just come to the United States before it had infected even a handful of people in Washington,

1:25.7

the state of Washington, we spoke with sociologist Adner Usmani, about the economic origins

1:31.0

of mass incarceration.

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Adner said, a country which doesn't redistribute from rich to poor a persistent feature in

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American history is a country doomed to respond to violence and crime with penal

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policy only. That's the heart of the

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issue, the failure to redistribute from rich to poor, the failure of the

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American working class, the American labor movement, and the weakness of the

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Democratic Party making it impossible for the

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