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Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?) and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss the school to prison pipeline, and the consequences on the young people who’s futures are now limited by they’re criminal record.
“For those unfamiliar with Baltimore City’s particular brand of justice, it has been an up-close primer on how things are done in a city whose police force is now under a full-fledged Department of Justice investigation. Not just over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody which prompted protests across the city and a criminal investigation, but how the criminal justice responded to the strife and what it may have done in the past to precipitate this unrest.
Protesters have been held without charges for days. Innocent people arrested. And in an exclusive report by The Real News, two weeks before the violence erupted and thrust Baltimore onto the world stage, documents revealed juveniles were arrested for simply not getting on a bus. In short, Baltimore’s aggressive policing and heavy emphasis on incarceration has been unrelenting, even as the world watched.”
Read more here: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13828
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I would be interested to know what these young people think about the “relevancy” of this individuals music in todays society when they become 50 years of age or older. Admittedly, I can remember my priorities and social agenda at age 18-30 and my priorities now. People change and to dictate that everyone must agree and think the same way while always agreeing with each other at all ages and is not how life works. Coming to this website is mildly amusing since it reminds me of my life as a young person and my life now as an old person.(well, not old but definitely older).
However, I can say this. Despite how our country is constantly ridiculed and insulted, compared to other countries with the same diversity of population and size , we kick butt in so many different ways.