With the 2015 City Council campaign now officially underway, New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson and Council Member Jared Rice appear anxious to stoke racial anxiety in New Rochelle in the hopes of securing solid support in New Rochelle's black community. Two weeks ago, Rice branded New Rochelle residents White Supremacists and exhorted his Facebook Friends to read "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander, a 2010 book that has become especially influential among civil rights activists and for years raised the issue of "mass incarceration" in the context of Alexander's book, going back to his first public appearance as a political candidate .
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