The New Jim Crow starts off by basically saying that racism is not dead in the United States of America. Color blindness today is just as bad as slavery or the Jim Crow used to be. It has to lead us into a new era. The era of mass incarceration and the new Jim Crow. The people that think equality has been reached because African Americans can vote and have jobs fail to notice that so many African Americans reality is not how most white Americans perceive them. They fail to see that race is still an enormous problem. So many African Americans today cannot vote because they have been convicted of a felony. Convicted felons cannot vote white or black, but the rate at which African-American men are being arrested and convicted is very alarming.
