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Robert Saleem Holbrook, Human Rights Coalition, Amistad Law Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Robert Saleem Holbrook is a prisoner activist in Pennsylvania who was sentenced to Life Without Parole for a crime he was wrongfully convicted of as a juvenile offender in1990. He is an avid reader and writer and is co-founder of the Philadelphia based Human Rights Coalition (www.hrcoalition.org), an organization that advocates for the rights of prisoners and their families. He is also a member of the Amistad Law Project (www.amistadlawproject.org), a law collective in Philadelphia committed to social justice advocacy. He can be reached at: Facebook.com/groups/freesalim, Contact Mr. Holbrook. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Statutory Illegitimacy and Mandatory Sentencing: The White Majority’s Impact on Racial Disparity in the Administration of Justice and the Maintenance of While Supremacy

By Robert Saleem Holbrook, Human Rights Coalition, Amistad Law Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Guest Commentator

While the mention of white supremacy often brings to mind images of hooded men in white robes brandishing burning crosses, that is not white supremacy. That is white racism. White supremacy implies white maintenance and domination of the political, economic and cultural institutions if the United States for the benefit, directly or indirectly, of the majority white populace.

More than twenty years ago Professor Lani Guinier coined the term "tyranny of the majority” 1 to define how ethnic minorities within white majoritarian democracies (majority…

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