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[Barack Obama] So let's look at the statistics. The United States is home to 5% of the world's population... but 25% of the world's prisoners. Think about that. [Van Jones] A little country with 5% of the world's population having 25% of the world's prisoners? One out of four? One out of four human beings with their hands on bars, shackled,

in the world are locked up here, in the land of the free. We had a prison population of 300,000 in 1972. Today, we have a prison population of 2.3 million. The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. So, you see, now suddenly they're in an awakening that, "Oh, perhaps we need to downsize our prison system.

It's gotten too expensive. It's gotten out of hand." Um, but the very folks who often express so much concern, uh, about the cost and the expanse of the system are often very unwilling to talk in any serious way about remedying the harm that has been done. History is not just stuff that happens by accident.

We are the products of the history that our ancestors chose, if we're white. If we are black, we are products of the history that our ancestors most likely did not choose. Yet here we all are together, the products of that set of choices. And we have to understand that in order to escape from it.

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to be held as a slave. In other words, it grants freedom... to all Americans. There are exceptions, including criminals. [Khalil G. Muhammad] There's a clause, a loophole. [Kevin Gannon] If you have that in the structure, in this constitutional language, then it's there to be used as a tool