I Was a CIA Whistleblower. Now I’m a Black Inmate.
"In prison, I see that mindset of latent and allowable racism creating
and being typified by racial segregation. On TV, I see that very same
mindset in tragic action outside the prison walls through the use of
racial profiling throughout the country, racially motivated voter ID
laws, politicians stoking racial anxieties for votes, a criminal justice
system that engages in racially disparate application and enforcement
of the law, and much more. Such all-too-American, misguided
practices foster, if not encourage, societal segregation and incite the
dangers that necessarily accompany it. I can argue that the Charleston
church shooter, the white law enforcement officers who have killed black
citizens, and the black men who have killed law enforcement officers
acted out of an animosity fueled by this same sort of prison mindset.
What I have seen of the America I was a part of is the unfortunate and
natural extension of what I’m living in prison."
