Summary of Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'Til We Free Us

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Prisons, policing, and the criminal punishment system in general are racist, oppressive, and ineffective. Abolition is a vision of a restructured society in a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety.
#2 We must remember that we will also need to change. Our imagination of what a different world can be is limited. We are deeply entangled in the very systems we are organizing to change.
#3 We must simultaneously reduce contact between people and the criminal legal system. We must not only change how we address harm, but also how we address everything.
#4 I dread the summer because of the increased police presence and aggression. It seems like every summer, there is a new video of police brutality against Black people.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669366980
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'Til We Free Us
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Prisons, policing, and the criminal punishment system in general are racist, oppressive, and ineffective. Abolition is a vision of a restructured society in a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety.

#2

We must remember that we will also need to change. Our imagination of what a different world can be is limited. We are deeply entangled in the very systems we are organizing to change.

#3

We must simultaneously reduce contact between people and the criminal legal system. We must not only change how we address harm, but also how we address everything.

#4

I dread the summer because of the increased police presence and aggression. It seems like every summer, there is a new video of police brutality against Black people.

#5

The conflation of Blackness and criminality is not new, and is still seen today in the police force. When Baltimore police dressed in riot gear turned their violence on high school students at the Mondawmin Mall a few weeks ago, some people were horrified, but I thought grimly of how the cops saw the situation.

#6

The death of Beverly Lee, a seventh-grade schoolboy, sparked protests in Detroit. The police claimed that he had attempted to evade arrest by running away, but community members said he was shot in the back as he tried to flee.

#7

Young people in my community are subjected to stop-and-frisks, as well as warrantless searches of their homes. I dread summer.

#8

The police are a problem that must be addressed. We must end the police, and we can start by decreasing the numbers of police officers. We can also defund the police by redirecting their budgets to other social goods.

#9

We must reject all talk about policing and the criminal punishment system being broken or not working. This serves to reaffirm the current system and paint abolition as unrealistic and unworkable.

#10

The police are a force of violence against Black people, and have always been. Reducing the number of police officers will not make us safer, but it will help us get rid of the most violent among them.

#11

We cannot just close police departments; we must make them obsolete. We should redirect the billions that now go to police departments towards providing health care, housing, education, and good jobs.

#12

When people consider a world without the police, they typically imagine a society as violent as our current one, only without law enforcement. But what if we spent billions of dollars on housing, food, and education instead.

#13

We must fight to create a world where people like Tiffany Rusher are not tortured to death in the name of safety.

#14

As a society, we have been conditioned to simply turn away from any social concern that overwhelms us. For years, we have ignored the wars, dying oceans, and millions of people in bondage and oppressive police custody.

#15

The prison-industrial complex is a system that perpetuates itself, and without conditions that foster crime, there can be no recidivism.

#16

We as a society have been conditioned to accept social control, which is often enforced by people with guns, because we have been conditioned to fear each other.

#17