[Speaking at Dillard University in New Orleans, a historically black college, she delivered what she called "the hard truth about our criminal justice system: It's racist ... front to back." ]
The working class Left has known for a century the connection between racism and the black prisoner population .
After emerging from that very prison system Black Muslim Malcolm X by 1965 was able in his speeches before integrated audiences in Boston- - including many white radicals - to connect racism with capitalism , racism with imperialism .
My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ".
With millions behind bars and its savage death penalty the American Gulag has been condemned by the civilized world.
Above all THE LAW in the United States is rigged against the working class of ALL races and ethnic groups. JUSTICE here is a commodity -bought and sold . The YOUR HONORS have not much of it .
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