The end of the “de minimis” exemption, which applies to packages valued under $800, has sparked concern and confusion among international exporters and mail carriers.
“It was a turning point to the right,” Malik Rahim says of Hurricane Katrina. “It was when the right saw they had the ability to create justice… If we had stood up for justice after Katrina, there may not have been a Jena.1 If there wouldn’t have been a Jena, then maybe there wouldn’t have been a Ferguson. All of it was the ripple effects of what did not happen after Katrina.”