Summary of Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'Til We Free Us

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#1 Prisons, policing, and the criminal punishment system in general are racist, oppressive, and ineffective. Abolition is a vision of a restructured society in a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety.

#2 We must remember that we will also need to change. Our imagination of what a different world can be is limited. We are deeply entangled in the very systems we are organizing to change.

#3 We must simultaneously reduce contact between people and the criminal legal system. We must not only change how we address harm, but also how we address everything.

#4 I dread the summer because of the increased police presence and aggression. It seems like every summer, there is a new video of police brutality against Black people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669366980

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Prisons, policing, and the criminal punishment system in general are racist, oppressive, and ineffective. Abolition is a vision of a restructured society in a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety.

#2

We must remember that we will also need to change. Our imagination of what a different world can be is limited. We are deeply entangled in the very systems we are organizing to change.

#3

We must simultaneously reduce contact between people and the criminal legal system. We must not only change how we address harm, but also how we address everything.

#4

I dread the summer because of the increased police presence and aggression. It seems like every summer, there is a new video of police brutality against Black people.

#5

The conflation of Blackness and criminality is not new, and is still seen today in the police force. When Baltimore police dressed in riot gear turned their violence on high school students at the Mondawmin Mall a few weeks ago, some people were horrified, but I thought grimly of how the cops saw the situation.

#6

The death of Beverly Lee, a seventh-grade schoolboy, sparked protests in Detroit. The police claimed that he had attempted to evade arrest by running away, but community members said