1965 James Baldwin historical speech still speaks volumes to modern history as the African American is still caught under the oppressive system created by their white counterparts. Oppression that hasn’t ended and which is still ongoing, the American prison industrial complex. Slavery did not officially end until 1865, and 100 years later Baldwin describes that still African Americans are treated as non-citizens, jim crow doesn't end until the 1965 either. Slavery is now replaced with mass incarnation; justice is deferred and race is looked upon as well as the crime. The war on drugs era cocaine was a control substance which meant jail time, due to the disenfranchisement of African Americans they made cocaine into crack because of their environment.
