affirmative action

Affirmative Action in Fiction
by Saab Lofton

"White fear is profitable. Bond issues for prison construction managed by major investment banks are more profitable than school construction bonds for improving the decrepit, crowded public schools like Taft High School in the Bronx. The prison construction bonds also depend heavily on a steady flow of young, brown bodies of former students of de-funded schools, as do the crowded barracks in Iraq's deserts."
--Roberto Lovato of the Pacific News Service, May 18th, 2004

"Over the past 20 years California has built 23 new prisons and only one new university."
--Workers World, May 22nd, 2003