This video cast topic is an update on the roots of mass incarceration and the Broken Justice system. Slavery I know that our viewers understand that the first enslaved people were sold in Jamestown, in 1619. This started centuries of oppression of people at the margins. And you know that America and the White House were built by slaves. And that white Americans profited from forced Black labor. Jim Crow In 1865, slavery ended, but oppression did not. Enter the so called “Jim Crow” era which effectively legalized segregation in all aspects of American life, for the next 100 years and brought terror against Black people, intended to maintain the status quo. It wasn’t until the 1960s, with the passage of the Voting Rights and Fair Housing acts that the Jim Crow era officially ended. In the housing boom of the 1950s, as white America began building wealth in the suburbs, Black people, were deliberately and systematically shut out, a method called “redlining”.While the law made redlining il
