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Everyone is now a potential terrorist.
Schools resemble the culture of prisons.
Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.
Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.
Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.
I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.
Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.
Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.
Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.
Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.
Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.
I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.
Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.
Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.
Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.
Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.
Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.
America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.
Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.
The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.
Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.
Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.
Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.
Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.
There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.
There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.
The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.
The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.
Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.
I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.
I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.
The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.
Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.