The article, As a judge, I can see the racism embedded in the system, illustrates that contrary to the belief that people are equal under the law, the law is not colorblind. The article presets multiple statistics about how black individuals are judged more harshly and convicted more often than white people. Firstly, both Alexander’s book and my source begin with the history of slavery and integrated racism within the system. The book states that “sunshine gave way to darkness, and the Jim Crow system of segregation emerged”(Alexander, 20) which can be related to the article in which it states the following: “Historically, the justice system has been used to legitimise slavery, and then colonialism, from Elizabethan England onwards”(Herbert).
