The New Jim Crow has a good bit about blind spots in the civil rights movement, in particular, thinking that solution is to find perfect victims and use them as leverage to get laws changed.
The bad guys aren't reliably constrained by laws, and part of the nastiness of the current system is that people with criminal records are hard to present as perfect victims.
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The bad guys aren't reliably constrained by laws, and part of the nastiness of the current system is that people with criminal records are hard to present as perfect victims.