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How Racism Invented Modern Crime: The Shocking Truth Behind America's Prisons
In 'The Condemnation of Blackness,' Khalil Gibran Muhammad exposes a devastating lie: the idea that Black people are naturally criminal was deliberately constructed to justify systemic oppression after slavery. This isn't ancient history—it's the blueprint for today's mass incarceration. Muhammad, a leading historian at Harvard, shows how early crime statistics were weaponized to blame Black communities for poverty caused by racism itself. From the 1890s to the 1990s, the same narrative kept repeating: label Blackness as criminal, then use that label to lock people up. Watch this to understand why America's prison system is built on a racist myth—and why it still matters today.
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