00:01Un out of four human beings with their hands on bars, shackled, in the world, are locked up here in
00:07the land of the free.
00:09Kalief Browder was walking home from a party when he was stopped by police.
00:16Then they said, we're going to take you to the precinct, and most likely we're going to let you go
00:20home, and then I never went home.
00:27The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to be held as a slave.
00:34There are exceptions, including criminals.
00:38The boot hole was immediately exploited.
00:43What you got after that was a rapid transition to a mythology of black criminality.
00:49Some people got the real problem.
00:52Animals, beasts, that needed to be controlled.
00:55You better believe it.
00:56I'm only human.
00:58It became virtually impossible for a politician to run and appear soft on crime.
01:03The kinds of kids that are called super predators.
01:05Millions of dollars will be allocated for prison and jail facilities.
01:09Three strikes and you are out.
01:12It was an enormous burden on the black community, but it also violated a sense of core fairness.
01:18Some people got the real problem.
01:19The states were required to keep these prisons filled, even if nobody was committing a crime.
01:24It's so difficult to talk about mass incarceration because it has become heavily monetized.
01:30The focus is on taking people from prison, putting them in community corrections, parole and probation.
01:35How much progress is it really?
01:36Now there's a private company making money off the GPS monitor.
01:41We now have more African Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in the 1850s.
01:49We are the products of the history that our ancestors chose.
01:53Products of that set of choices that we have to understand in order to escape from.
01:58We should go looking somewhere high.
02:07I'm only human.
02:09After all, don't put the blame on me.
02:12Grazie a tutti.
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