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>> When Martin Luther King delivered his I Have A Dream speech there was no
that he could have ever imagined that a new system would be born,
born from the ashes of slavery and Jim Crow.
A new system of racial and social control that would trap millions
in a permanent second class status yet again.
A system that has now come to be known as mass incarceration.
>> We must wage what I will call total war
against public enemy number one in the United States.
The problem of dangerous drugs.
>> And by next year, our spending for drug law enforcement will have more
than tripled from its 1981 levels.
>> You will be put away and put away for good.
Three strikes and you are out.
>> A new analysis of the U.S. population finds more black men are incarcerated now
than were enslaved in 1850.
>> The time is overdue for new dreams to be born and a new movement to be built that will ensure
that mass incarceration will finally come to an end.
It's our turn to dream.
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>> We're the next generation after the Civil Rights Movement
and that's why it's our turn to dream.
It's our turn to dream when dealing with this mass incarceration.
If we don't keep fighting it's definitely going to continue.
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The Baptist Bottom is a real, real drug infested, poverty stricken area
and you would actually see a lot of people that lived in the city of Dothan
that would actually go four blocks north, south, east or west and not even come to that area.
So this is where I concentrated on cleaning up.
I'm the founder of T.O.P.S., The Ordinary People Society.
If somebody gets out of jail or prison and they don't have any money or anything,
they could come here and we provide them clothes.
There's blankets over there, TVs.
>> I run the food kitchen where we're at right now.
By feeding people every day it actually hinders them from going out to steal food
from grocery stores or from any type of store, or steal money
or purses or anything from people.
>> Well they help the neighborhood.
Reverend Glasgow, he good folk.
>> Job skills, GED, resumes with the program, director counselling, substance abuse, in AAA.
>> It's not only coming from our side of point of view saying oh I care about the situation
but it coming from an insider point of view because I have been there before.
And I know all the effects and all the feelings that you have from being incarcerated.
I've been in jail myself.
Me, personally, I'm a felon.
>> More than 65 million people in the United States now have criminal records.
And once you've been branded, once you acquire that record, it follows you for life.
>> You can't get a PELL grant or a student loan.
You can't get public housing or Section 8.
You lose your voting rights.
And then you already can't get a job.
So what it does is put you back in the scenario where you got to go back to your norm
or just something you used to do.
That's hypocrisy because you pay your debt to society and you never are able
to return back to full citizenship.
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I'm about 6, 7, 8 years old in 71.
So a little bit later than that I started see the drug war in Nam.
When I came up out of high school people were talking about crack, cooking it up and all that,
and I was really surprised that it was here but it was.
And I just started messing up and got hooked on crack.
I tried to get off it a couple of times but would go back to it, fall flat on my face.
Which led me into the 14 years of prison that I did.
That was one of the biggest regrets of my life.
>> When he went into prison I was 9.
When he came out I was 17 going on 18.
When he came home I just, I was ready for him to be a Daddy.
Like I told him when he came home he was like what did I want from him.
I was like just be a Daddy.
>> I always heard you look just like your Daddy.
You act just like your Daddy.
And I always felt like well if I look like him and I act like him,
then what's wrong with me being like him?
I'm already going through some of the same things that he was going through.
You know I wasn't on crack but you know I was out here in these streets.
Living the street life.
Doing things that I know I shouldn't be doing.
>> Little Kenny, my son, he tell me he'd say hey,
he said Daddy I don't mean no disrespect he said,
but if you tell me everything you done did wrong maybe I'd know what to do right.
So that's what inspired me to go back to the Bottom and clean up where I messed up.
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When I got out and started to investigate myself where's so and so?
He's gone.
Where's so and so?
He's gone.
Where's this one?
He's gone.
I been gone 14 years.
This one's been gone 12.
And I realized wait a minute, hold up.
How come it's just all us in this community gone?
>> People of all colors commit crimes.
People of all colors commit drug crimes.
Middle class white suburban students don't get stopped
and frisked on their way to the school bus.
No. No those tactics are reserved for the Hood.
>> I was in the [inaudible].
That year was the first year that they started taking children
to jail when they fight at school.
And that was the first experience I had and then after that I got on juvenile probation.
I had to be on probation for a certain amount of time.
I made As and Bs in school, you know.
But by the time I was 13 years old you know, I was in juvenile.
I was in the Boys Home and everything.
They already label us from the jump.
>> And what I started to see was a pattern.
You can't help but see it.
The next time I said how many of you all got people that is locked up in jail?
How many of you all have seen the police come in your neighborhoods?
How many of you have seen the police beat somebody up
or do something to somebody that you know?
Mass incarceration and the war on drugs terrorize the community.
It became a war on people, minorities.
That's when it really hit me.
We're the next generation after the Civil Rights movement.
>> Up, up our liberation.
Down, down our incarceration.
Up, up our liberation.
>> I am inspired.
A movement to end mass incarceration is being born in the United States today.
>> The people who I left 10 years ago who are still on drugs,
still doing crack, stealing the same.
And we start feeding them.
Now some of them are with me doing this ministry.
Helping others.
This is what a movement really looks like.
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>> I was just doing it because I was spending time with my Dad.
But it wasn't until I got older I started realizing what was really going on.
That he was changing.
He was using that same drive that he had when he was out here in the streets.
He using it towards helping people now.
>> You know I try my hardest to stay a part of anything he has going on and because you know
that shows him that somebody there is going to follow in his foot steps.
>> And I've been getting involved with a lot of the politics that my Dad has been doing.
I understand that it's going to get passed down to somebody
so somebody got to step up and jump on board.
It could be me and my sister Kenyetta.
>> This movement involves people who have stepped out of prison and have turned
around and begun to helping others.
Not only helping them find work and shelter and housing but organizing.
>> In Alabama we done changed several laws pertaining to drug policies and sentencing.
And in Florida we have changed the law for the voting rights.
We have won lawsuits against the Department of Corrections
for their inhumane treatment towards inmates.
If you remain silent then you become a co-conspirator to your own oppression.
And that's why we got to bridge this gap between civil rights and voting and all,
to mass incarceration, and the drug war.
>> I mean the dream is not over.
So we ain't good.
We ain't good.
You know, we got to keep dreaming.
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>> I believe Martin Luther King would say I did my job and it's time for you to do yours.
It's our turn to dream.
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