The Dr. Vibe Show™: Michael Holzman “The Chains Of Black America: The Hammer Of The Police, The Anvil Of The Schools”

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Michael Holzman’s book, The Chains of Black America: The Hammer of the Police, The Anvil of the Schools, is a description of how two great institutions of American government—the education XE “education” and criminal justice systems—often hinder, rather than enable, the achievement of equal opportunities for the descendants of enslaved Africans. The book is about the caste status of African Americans, rather than about “people of color,” or impoverished Americans, because of the specific history of African Americans and the way in which their oppression affects others. It is perhaps not too much to say that until descent from enslaved Africans is no longer a cause for lack of equality of opportunity, the United States will never be a just society.

Each chapter, beginning with the national survey in Chapter One, includes demographic, health XE “health”, income XE “income”, wealth XE “wealth”, and economic mobility XE “mobility” data, followed by sections on the criminal justice and education XE “education” systems and concluding with attempts at modeling a more equitable society. This modeling is extended nationally in a final chapter. In addition to the national overview in Chapter One, there are chapters on eight cities: Chicago XE “Chicago”, Cleveland XE “Cleveland”, Memphis XE “Memphis”, Milwaukee XE “Milwaukee”, New Orleans XE “New Orleans”, New York City XE “New York City”, Philadelphia XE “Philadelphia”, and Rochester XE “Rochester, New York”. Each of these has a significant, highly segregated, African American population. In each, African American incarceration XE “incarceration” rates XE “incarceration rates” are many times higher than those of White, non-Hispanics, and educational outcomes are much less favorable for African American than for White, non-Hispanic, students. There are many other cities where these conditions prevail, such as Minneapolis XE “Minneapolis”, Buffalo XE “Buffalo”, Montgomery XE “Montgomery” and Miami XE “Miami”, but eight examples seem sufficient as examples of how caste is enforced in America.

Michael Holzman is the author of many books, reports, op-eds, and blogs. He is the originator of the Schott Foundation’s series of reports on Public Education and Black Males and the author of The Black Poverty Cycle and How to End it and Minority Students and Public Education. In addition to the Schott Foundation he has been an advisor to the Heinz Endowments, the Panasonic Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, among others, and has worked on reform in school districts from Seattle to Miami.

Mr. Holzman talked about his most recent book, The Chains of Black America: The Hammer of the Police, The Anvil of the Schools on our show.

During the conversation, Mr. Holzman spoke about:

– How he came up with the title
– His belief that African Americans are subjected to a caste system due to the education and criminal justice systems
– That certain individuals are responsible for keeping the caste system in America in place
– What can African American do to change the caste system
– If Hispanic Americans have any impact on the future of Black America
– If he has hope that this criminal justice and education systems will change

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