“New Slaves”
With laws implemented to create an intranational drug war, a “new slave” system has ultimately been a way to keep the status quo. As Howard Thurman believes, everyone should treat each other as equal children of God and love one another. By the deceit of a “colorblind” legal system, the inequality of whites and colored, rich and poor, remains. I believe all of us, as voters, must put effort into becoming educated on principles of love and equality, so we can bring about new ideas which bring value to all people, regardless of race, religion, or class.
The deceitful system maintains the status quo through a “colorblind” legal system. During the Jim Crow era, blacks were denied simple rights of liberty through subliminal discrimination. Nowadays, the system is still in place only for felons instead of blacks. Michelle Alexander writes, in The New Jim Crow, “once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal” (Alexander, 2). Recent laws implemented to maintain the white majority status quo by taking rights away from those who committed a felony. With the liberty deprivation of a felon, you might wonder whether the felon system is …show more content…
If prison is the punishment for a crime, does the completion of prison time reprieve the crime? In a lot of drug cases, of marijuana specifically, don’t have much of an impact on the third-party. Is punishment through imprisonment actually necessary? This would eliminate a lot of the prison population. As a population of voters, we must discern what drugs should be illegal and punishable by imprisonment. To decide the legislation we must think of, the third-party effects, danger, and
With laws implemented to create an intranational drug war, a “new slave” system has ultimately been a way to keep the status quo. As Howard Thurman believes, everyone should treat each other as equal children of God and love one another. By the deceit of a “colorblind” legal system, the inequality of whites and colored, rich and poor, remains. I believe all of us, as voters, must put effort into becoming educated on principles of love and equality, so we can bring about new ideas which bring value to all people, regardless of race, religion, or class.
The deceitful system maintains the status quo through a “colorblind” legal system. During the Jim Crow era, blacks were denied simple rights of liberty through subliminal discrimination. Nowadays, the system is still in place only for felons instead of blacks. Michelle Alexander writes, in The New Jim Crow, “once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal” (Alexander, 2). Recent laws implemented to maintain the white majority status quo by taking rights away from those who committed a felony. With the liberty deprivation of a felon, you might wonder whether the felon system is …show more content…
If prison is the punishment for a crime, does the completion of prison time reprieve the crime? In a lot of drug cases, of marijuana specifically, don’t have much of an impact on the third-party. Is punishment through imprisonment actually necessary? This would eliminate a lot of the prison population. As a population of voters, we must discern what drugs should be illegal and punishable by imprisonment. To decide the legislation we must think of, the third-party effects, danger, and