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Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their best behavior, raise their arms and spread their legs for the police without complaint, stay in failing schools, pull up their pants, and refuse all forms of illegal work and moneymaking activity, even if jobs in the legal economy are impossible to find. Girls are told not to have children until they are married to a "good" black man who can help provide for a family with a legal job. They are told to wait and wait for Mr. Right even if that means, in a jobless ghetto, never having children at all.
Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in … bigotry injustice racism

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ALONE 667 clues
DOG 479 clues
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FAITH 174 clues
GOVERNMENT 123 clues
PEOPLE 122 clues
ANIMALS 92 clues
BIGOTRY 85 clues
HAPPINESS 84 clues
RACISM 58 clues
INJUSTICE 47 clues
POLITICS 32 clues
MORALITY 31 clues
BELIEFS 24 clues
LOBBYING 1 clue

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Unscramble MICHELLE8-letter words that start with M8-letter words that end in E8-letter words containing IC8-letter words containing LE8-letter words with M and I
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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