POLITICAL HUMOR & SATIRE

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Is that the opinion columnist for the NYT's ?

So is that a no?

She isn't just an opinion columnist.

From Wiki:

Career
Alexander served as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California from 1998 until 2005, which led a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. She directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School and was a law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun at the U. S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. As an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action suits alleging race and gender discrimination.
Alexander sits on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, as a Visiting Professor of Social Justice.
In 2018, she was hired as an opinion columnist at The New York Times.

Hidden Colors 2

Alexander appeared in a 2012 documentary Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin, in which she discussed the impact of mass incarceration in melanoid communities. Alexander said: "Today there are more African American adults, under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the Civil War began.
13^th 
Alexander appeared in the 2016 documentary [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13^th_(film)]13^th[/url] directed by Ava DuVernay. As a guest expert interviewee, Alexander described the evolution of racial disparity in the United States of America through its evolution from slavery, the Jim Crow laws, the War on Drugs, to mass incarceration. Alexander said, "So many aspects of the Old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon. And so it seems that in America, we haven't so much ended racial caste but simply redesigned it".

I will check it out. It's more than likely a good read and I will never know until I start reading it. If it flows I will continue. I'm not abject to considering other views. But as you know it does take time to read a book.