Waaaaaaay back in 1883, author and abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote about how crime had become racialized, saying that the U.S. had a tendency to “impute crime to color.” Scholar Angela Davis wrote about how, once chattel slavery ended, “Black Codes” were established specifically targeting the African-American population in such a way that certain actions were “criminalized only when the person charged was Black.” These discriminatory acts may have their genesis in the late 19th century but they are being played out in real time—here and now, in the 21st century.