Black Lives Matter and most other Black freedom movements have attempted to address the vicious consequences of slavery's legacy in Black life: the theft of Black land, social opportunity, and social mobility; the prison industrial complex; inequities in education, employment, and housing. All these have left many Black folk permanently poor, vulnerable to disease, socially dislocated, and resorting to crime, especially stealing food to feed families or engaging in other illegal activities to support kin.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 130-131
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