IMPENDING CHARGES?
Velshi
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The Role of Law Enforcement in the Maintenance of the Racial Order
In your book, Profits and Poets of the Hood, you talk about while hip hop is not seen as an art form, it becomes deprived of the kind of first amendment protection. Perry: I think it's better to understand hip hop as a reflection of a community's reality, but also aspiration to be about maybe 50 years old. Black people's encounter with law enforcement has disproportionately been as a target of suppression," she says.
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