- Paul Butler’s book “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” argues that the US criminal justice system is institutionally constructed to control African American men. It explores and exposes the racial profiling most African-American men are subjected to in society.
- The term “chokehold” is used euphemistically by Butler to describe the pervasive “chokehold” over black men that can be observed in numerous social and political arenas.
- The criminal justice system harms black men. “The prison experiment has been a failure. We need to start being creative about other ways to do what we think prison does”
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Article source:
The Guardian
