>Well, we DO live in a police state and you don't have to be an American
>person of color to point that out.
We live in Lockdown America, as Christian Parenti calls it, but that's not the same as a police state.
>The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other nation on the planet.
You're not one of them. If we lived in a police state, you would be, wouldn't you?