11 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report
This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil rights phenomenon”: the Mass Black Incarceration State, a national project that was created as a response to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Black folks in the early Sixties appealed to the feds for protection. Today, the feds are the ones who will take you out.
The New Dark Age 