Although segregation ended many years ago ,it’s characteristics are prevalent today by means of mass incarceration happening in our country to this day.”The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” written by Michelle Alexander is able to go in depth and show that even though the Jim crow laws have ended,America uses the federal justice system to discriminate against criminals in a ‘’legal” way.
MIchelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer who was also one of the many people who were blinded and not able to see what was actually going on in our justice system.Once a person who has been incarcerated has been released, they are denied the basic rights an american should have.Michelle states that they are excluded from juries …show more content…
Michelle is able to use events that has happened in the past to be able to prove her thesis. Michelle implements that the reason such mass incarceration is happening has been due to “The war on drugs” which President Nixon started back in the 80’s .The war on drugs was mainly focused on the abuse of cocaine and many law enforcers were sent to poor communities many which were communities that consisted of people of color even though people of color weren't the only ones who trafficked,sold or abused the drug. Ever since the “War on Drugs” imprisonment rates have gradually grew over the years from 1985 to 1990 the US prison population has went up from 759,100 to 1,179,200 according to the “bureau justice of statistics”. Another way Michelle is able to back up her thesis is being able to being able to bring the rights an American has and how getting the label “felon” stripes you down from those certain rights just like the Jim crow laws once did. For example once a prisoner is released from prison they are stripped down from their right to vote, a right that every American was promised. Just as the Jim crow laws did they banned people of color from voting.Michelle was able to also show the influence media has in hiding the reality of the justice system to the public eye. She explains to her readers on page 59 that television shows such as law and order are filled with fictional of how prosecutors and officers truly are in reality. She further goes in depth saying that the reality is nothing like that officers will search you for no apparent reason just because they think you are some threat or even because the color of your skin. She also is able to use a political evidence to be able to strengthen her thesis. She goes in depth of how Reagan declared this
MIchelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer who was also one of the many people who were blinded and not able to see what was actually going on in our justice system.Once a person who has been incarcerated has been released, they are denied the basic rights an american should have.Michelle states that they are excluded from juries …show more content…
Michelle is able to use events that has happened in the past to be able to prove her thesis. Michelle implements that the reason such mass incarceration is happening has been due to “The war on drugs” which President Nixon started back in the 80’s .The war on drugs was mainly focused on the abuse of cocaine and many law enforcers were sent to poor communities many which were communities that consisted of people of color even though people of color weren't the only ones who trafficked,sold or abused the drug. Ever since the “War on Drugs” imprisonment rates have gradually grew over the years from 1985 to 1990 the US prison population has went up from 759,100 to 1,179,200 according to the “bureau justice of statistics”. Another way Michelle is able to back up her thesis is being able to being able to bring the rights an American has and how getting the label “felon” stripes you down from those certain rights just like the Jim crow laws once did. For example once a prisoner is released from prison they are stripped down from their right to vote, a right that every American was promised. Just as the Jim crow laws did they banned people of color from voting.Michelle was able to also show the influence media has in hiding the reality of the justice system to the public eye. She explains to her readers on page 59 that television shows such as law and order are filled with fictional of how prosecutors and officers truly are in reality. She further goes in depth saying that the reality is nothing like that officers will search you for no apparent reason just because they think you are some threat or even because the color of your skin. She also is able to use a political evidence to be able to strengthen her thesis. She goes in depth of how Reagan declared this