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Prince jones between the world and me5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() But this had nothing to do with the underlying and relentless logic of the world this man inhabited, a logic built on laws built on history built on contempt for this man and his family and their fate. They would often bring a social worker to an eviction. They were concerned about mass incarceration. This particular sheriff's department was more progressive than most. ![]() So he now changed all that energy into anger, directed at the officers. The man was humiliated, and I imagined that he had probably for some time carried, in his head, alone, all that was threatening his family but could not bring himself to admit it to himself or his wife. Outside there were men who'd been hired to remove the family's possessions. The officers stood in the man's living room, giving him orders as to what would now happen. His wife's eyes registered, all at once, shock at the circumstance, anger at the officers, and anger at her husband. ![]() She had clearly not been warned that the sheriff would be coming, though something in her husband's demeanor told me he must have known. I followed the sheriff's officers inside the house, where a group of them were talking to the man's wife, who was also trying to tend to her two children. That day I saw a black man losing his home. I was trailing some officers of the county sheriff as they made their rounds. One day, I was in Chicago, reporting a story about the history of segregation in the urban North and how it was engineered by government policy. ![]()
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