My community organization has been pushing for police accountability measures but we're discovering that some longtime members see mass incarceration as primarily about individual choices while newer members frame it as systemic racism. The generational and racial dynamics in our group are making it impossible to develop a unified message about what we're actually fighting against.
More people experience this than they realize.
Organizing efforts founder when group members hold incompatible theories about whether the problem is individual behavior or structural oppression.
“Where Are You with Mass incarceration — causes and critique?”
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