Justice While Black

Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the crimin... Read more

Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why that system continues to see black men as targets and as dollar signs.The book provides practical, straightforward advice on how to deal with specific legal situations: the threat of arrest, being arrested, being in custody, preparing for and undergoing a trial, and navigating the appeals and parole process. The primary goal of this book is to become a primer for African Americans on how to avoid becoming ensnared in the criminal justice system a system whose chief purpose is less to ensure justice than it is to provide a constant supply of bodies to perpetuate the system, to keep the jobs and money flowing.While the precarious safely of black males has received renewed interest in the past year because of the deaths of teenagers Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, the fact is that this group has always been under threat from the armed guardians of the white social order. Black males and the police force have been at odds since the nation's founding, when wealthy planters hired slave patrols to keep the white community safe from dangerous escaped slaves. The tactics have been modernized, but the impact is still devastating we are witnessing an epic criminalization of the African-American community at levels never before seen since the end of slavery." Less