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    I believe black Americans face a genocide. This is why | Ben Crump

    Consider the physical, financial, mental, even spiritual deaths inflicted on black Americans
    by Ben Crump Nov 15, 2019 4 minutes
    ‘Hundreds of thousands are in prison for selling drugs because prosecutors maintained they were poisoning the community – but in Flint, where the whole community was poisoned, not one official was punished.’ Photograph: Pacific Press/Rex/Shutterstock

    In the weeks since the release of my book, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, the question I’ve been asked most often is whether my use of the word genocide in the title was meant to be intentionally provocative, rather than reflective of reality.

    Surely, genocide is too strong a word for the maltreatment of black people in America, some interviewers have suggested. True genocide is something that happened in Nazi Germany, Armenia and Rwanda, not the United States of America.

    Yet we don’t need to look any further than the definition contained in article 2 of the United Nations’ : “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to

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