Drug War Nightmare Analysis

Michelle Alexander wrote an interesting article about how people in the U.S are ‘blind’ when it comes to racism called “Drug War Nightmare: How We Created a Massive Racial Caste System in America”. She says that the racial discrimination seems to be fading away but everybody is just ignoring it. She wrote this essay to make people realize that everybody needs to wake up and notice what is happening to the people who are part of the American society. Her essay is very effective and makes us realize what is happening but she has yet to provide a solution for this problem. Alexander uses several appeals to attract readers and her ethos and pathos appeals were the most effective to me. I disagree with her when she states …show more content…
In Alexander’s essay she talks about how the U.S was and still is very discriminant towards the black. She says that as the years come by the discrimination has gotten better but it still exists. She uses the War on Drugs widely for how the country tried to imprison many black people due to drugs in the 1980’s and 1990’s in this essay to support her arguments. She uses this to say that the reason of the numerous amounts of blacks being in prison because they are just ‘dangerous’ is all an illusion. She states that black people are more likely to be imprisoned than white people who commit the same crime. She says all of these to notify the readers that it’s not just because they’re dangerous but it’s because they’re simply black. According to her sentence “When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our ‘colorblind’ society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political and economic structure: the structure of racial caste.” She claims that if we all open our eyes and stop deceiving ourselves that it’s not racism, there might be a solution for all of this. She ends the essay by saying the discrimination might never