30 May 2026
The C.O.W.S. Michelle Alexander's 🐮🛎️ The New Jim Crow Part 7 "Few... leap at the opportunity to support black people."
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The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 7th session on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander is a non-white female with one White parent and one non-white parent. Despite 15 years of institutional celebration, Gus T. anticipated this being one of the 5 Worst Books Ever. Racists generally do not promote literature that provides an accurate understanding of the System of White Supremacy.
Deception by Omission: A serious exploration of prisons and Racism must account for the systemic forces that built them. This book's failure to center COINTELPRO, the torture legacy of Chicago’s Jon Burge, or the raw profitability of caging Black men suggests Alexander is guilty of a whole lot of lying.
Last week's review included:
1. The "Basically" Deception & The Audio Patch: Alexander claims the 10th Anniversary edition is "basically" the same book, yet we discovered she began remixing her sloppy book almost immediately. Last week, Gus noted that in 2010 she wrote that 1/3 of state inmates are violent offenders. But in the 2012 audiobook, she boosted the number to 50%. Which is it?
2. The COINTELPRO Foundation: Last week, Alexander again discussed the necessary use of police informants to snitch on drug users and violent offenders. She explained that the information they relay may or may not be true and they can easily be manipulated to lie on behalf of law enforcement. These are all hallmarks of the FBI campaign Alexander willfully omits from her original printing.
3. Flagrant Lies: Alexander again says that at some random point in time following the 1970s, most people classified as White in this part of the world disavowed the practice of Racism/White Supremacy. Again, Alexander knows this is a lie because her White relatives booted her White mom out of the family for marrying a black dude. Alexander lived in a Racially Restricted Region of Oregon in the 1980s. She's hyper-aware that Whites remain dedicated to the System of White Supremacy - as was her deceased black father.
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Deception by Omission: A serious exploration of prisons and Racism must account for the systemic forces that built them. This book's failure to center COINTELPRO, the torture legacy of Chicago’s Jon Burge, or the raw profitability of caging Black men suggests Alexander is guilty of a whole lot of lying.
Last week's review included:
1. The "Basically" Deception & The Audio Patch: Alexander claims the 10th Anniversary edition is "basically" the same book, yet we discovered she began remixing her sloppy book almost immediately. Last week, Gus noted that in 2010 she wrote that 1/3 of state inmates are violent offenders. But in the 2012 audiobook, she boosted the number to 50%. Which is it?
2. The COINTELPRO Foundation: Last week, Alexander again discussed the necessary use of police informants to snitch on drug users and violent offenders. She explained that the information they relay may or may not be true and they can easily be manipulated to lie on behalf of law enforcement. These are all hallmarks of the FBI campaign Alexander willfully omits from her original printing.
3. Flagrant Lies: Alexander again says that at some random point in time following the 1970s, most people classified as White in this part of the world disavowed the practice of Racism/White Supremacy. Again, Alexander knows this is a lie because her White relatives booted her White mom out of the family for marrying a black dude. Alexander lived in a Racially Restricted Region of Oregon in the 1980s. She's hyper-aware that Whites remain dedicated to the System of White Supremacy - as was her deceased black father.
#COINTELPRO #TheRedboneDeception #TheCOWS17Years INVEST in The COWS – [http://paypal.me/TheCOWS](http://paypal.me/TheCOWS) Cash App: [https://cash.app/$TheCOWS](https://cash.app/$TheCOWS) CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#