“More African Americans are under the control of the criminal justice system today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850. Discrimination in housing, education, employment, and voting rights, which many Americans thought was wiped out by the civil rights laws of the 1960s, is now perfectly legal against anyone labeled a “felon’’.—said Michelle Alexander, the author of the book ‘The New Jim Crow’. In her book Michelle Alexander evokes many important issues that are running rampant in our society concerning the unfair treating of our criminal justice system towards African-Americans. "The New Jim Crow" highlights the racial dimensions of the War on Drugs, refuting its ‘real purpose’, that instead of combatting
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One of her point from the book to support her claim that the system is racist, is a by analyzing how the criminal justice system implements rules and policies that the constitution prohibits in order to target at communities of people of color. For instance, the "stop-and-frisk" rule, for example, grants police officers the ability to search individuals based on "suspicion", not probable cause, of drug activity, meaning officers do not need to respect the Fourth Amendment to search and arrest one based on reasonable evidence that a crime has been committed to place an arrest, or an crime is present to place a search. Suspicion is, in other words, saying that one is suspicious of a crime based on his dress, walk, driving ability, and as Alexander points out, skin color. This supports statistic that nearly 90 percent of drug felons are black, when whites are more likely to engage in drug …show more content…
I personally can phantom how, as advanced people, we are still discriminated against one another over such thing like, color. Such claims as black people are always prone to steal, the have great basketball skills, they are illiterate, or white people have good credit, show how far backward we are as a society for such claims often represent one’s class, or living circumstance. But definitely not race! They are found in every individual, regardless of their race. Just like James Baldwin suggests in his reading, we have to travel and experience different culture in order not to be molded by our
One of her point from the book to support her claim that the system is racist, is a by analyzing how the criminal justice system implements rules and policies that the constitution prohibits in order to target at communities of people of color. For instance, the "stop-and-frisk" rule, for example, grants police officers the ability to search individuals based on "suspicion", not probable cause, of drug activity, meaning officers do not need to respect the Fourth Amendment to search and arrest one based on reasonable evidence that a crime has been committed to place an arrest, or an crime is present to place a search. Suspicion is, in other words, saying that one is suspicious of a crime based on his dress, walk, driving ability, and as Alexander points out, skin color. This supports statistic that nearly 90 percent of drug felons are black, when whites are more likely to engage in drug …show more content…
I personally can phantom how, as advanced people, we are still discriminated against one another over such thing like, color. Such claims as black people are always prone to steal, the have great basketball skills, they are illiterate, or white people have good credit, show how far backward we are as a society for such claims often represent one’s class, or living circumstance. But definitely not race! They are found in every individual, regardless of their race. Just like James Baldwin suggests in his reading, we have to travel and experience different culture in order not to be molded by our