Latin America
“In general I’ve always been treated well throughout Central and South America. I never feel like a second class citizen… I think it is safer to be a [B]lack man in Central and South America than it is to be a [B]lack man in the United States.” - Joel Duncan
Asia
When Jay-Z participated in a panel with Meek Mill, Patriots owner Bob Kraft, Van Jones, and others, criminal justice was being discussed. Recently, footage resurfaced of him making comments about policing and the connection between violence and single-parent households… but what did he actually say?
Donald Trump’s Attorney General, William Barr, is up to no good. He’s worried because progressive district attorneys are being elected around the country. They have the power to change things by using a power they have called “discretion.” That’s what’s worrying Barr.
Discretion means that district attorneys can decide which crimes they want to charge and HOW they want to charge them, if at all. Many progressive district attorneys refuse to harshly charge petty crimes and non-violent offenses, because doing so feeds into mass incarceration.