Marines, National Guard soldiers, ICE raids and disinformation blitzes. Why the battle for L.A. is a fight for Kansas City’s future… and yes Black people too.
This essay from The Defender’s Executive Editor mourns the passage of the human caging facility tax while offering a radical, abolitionist vision of what comes next. Drawing from the Black prophetic tradition, it exposes the jail as a parasite — and imagines a future we are already building.
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