Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“The prison population on the eve of Tricky Dick’s 1972 declaration of war [on drugs] stood at 196,441. It now stands at over 1.25 million with millions more, mostly people of color residing on the condemned battle fields of Black Power, existing under some form of carceral supervision that essentially amounts to a legal caste stripped of virtually every privilege promised them by the Civil Rights Movement. … The comparisons between that pill-popping Quaker mutant and Donald Trump are seemingly endless and have been explored to the point of cliche but the most frightening parallel should be the fact that Trump seems to believe that he can distract a nation exhausted by America’s myriad forever wars overseas by expanding the one Nixon started within our own borders to staggeringly fascist proportions and he might be right.” (04/27/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/04/towards-post-colonial-illegalism-when.html