For Blacks, Imprisonment Is Legal Lynching

"Black people are 12 percent of the U.S. population and nearly 50 percent of the prison population; that's a form of lynching--legal lynching. So there are a lot more ways to lynch a people than just hanging them on the tree. ...The ghetto becomes, just like a prison, a metaphor for lynching, if lynching is understood as one group forcing a kind of inhumanity upon another group."--James Cone, theologian, from Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues (The New Press, 2011).