In the Baltimore videos, there are many significant issues that resonated with me. “The Issues Behind the Uprising” brought up the issue of unaffordable housing and landlords who abandoned their tenants. Many minorities in Baltimore have been subjected to something less than human. The other video, “Anatomy of an American City”, addresses the increasing murder rate in Baltimore. A man named Dante was a drug dealer who got caught up in selling drugs and he said that when you are desperate to take care of your family, you have to take drastic measures whether it may be negative or positive. Michelle Alexander the author of “The New Jim Crow”, talked about how the issues in her book reflect similarities with the adversity that exists in Baltimore
