I even have Colin Powell crying on camera when I ask him how he felt about Obama being elected. But then we end with a black man unjustly imprisoned for 11 years, arrested on a trumped-up charge of concealing cocaine on a bus. It's the new Jim Crow, as Michelle Alexander called it, the horrendously huge population of [imprisoned] black males. It's the best of times for the black community. It's the worst of times. I'm hoping that 12 Years a Slave serves as an allegory of what it is like to be a free man being kidnapped and falsely imprisoned. And this would be the case of all these men in prison as a result of the three-strikes laws [which have meant that a petty crime can lead to a life sentence if the offender has been found guilty of two previous crimes].