First I'd like to tell you that you are more politically savvy than you think you are. I always felt that politics are made to seem a lot more complex than they are. It comes down to policies,laws, and rulings. Everything else is just bells and whistles.
About the "new jim crow" and "school to prison" pipeline stuff, there are always external and internal factors but the ones feeding people this stuff know that some would rather blame the outside forces instead of taking a long hard look in the mirror and face the reality of the INTERNAL issues.
You can't sell books or do lecture tours telling people to go to school, and not have children that they can't properly raise though...but you can make money blaming unseen evil forces like the prison industrial complex, "wilie lynch", and the school to prison pipeline, and of course "the Illuminati"
