On Racism and Criminal Justice

While pursuing my political science degree, I took an online summer course titled "Culture, Ideology, and Prisons". The final paper was a summation of the material and my thoughts on incarceration and the viability of its continuation. Although this essay is nearing two years old now, it remains tragically current and likely stands to remain so for the foreseeable future. I apologize for not including a list of references for the included citations., but I have no idea what I did with it. If it ever turns up, I'll be sure to add it. (If anyone specifically wants that information, I could make some time to reconstruct it.) I present the work in its original form, despite my impulse to make edits for readability.

My Introduction to the Gallatin Democrats

This past summer, an opening arose for me to pursue the Democratic Party nomination for Montana House District 68, and I was asked to give a five-minute introductory speech. Although I no longer have the final text as I presented it, the following is a fair representation based on my previous written drafts.