"Poor people of color, like other Americans—indeed like nearly everyone around the world—want safe streets, peaceful communities, healthy families, good jobs, and meaningful opportunities to contribute to society. The notion that ghetto families do not, in fact, want those things, and instead are perfectly content to live in crime-ridden communities, feeling no shame or regret about the fate of their young men is quite simply racist. It is impossible to imagine that we would believe such a thing about whites."

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (p. 108)