Introduction
Michelle Alexander is a law professor at Ohio State University, civil rights advocate, and author of one of the best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She focuses on the mass incarceration of black males and expresses that policies like the War on Drugs have enabled this tragic occurrence. Several undertakings done in our society have prevented black males from prospering and thriving off the resources we have that are relatively available to those who are Caucasian. We rather watch our black men rot in prison then allow them the chance to go to college and thrive off an alternative survival method.
Discussion
Alexander described that countless blue-collar industrial jobs were taken …show more content…
“We could have responded to this collapse with compassion, care, job training, and economic stimulus. We chose a different road of division, punitiveness, and despair. We ended the War on Poverty, and declared the War on Drugs.” (The University of Chicago, 2013) This new policy tactic mainly aims at black males for incarceration in well thought out targeted ways. She said she was first exposed to the methods of the system while working at the American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina. That is where she met a man who told her that the police had planted drugs on him and framed by the police. Alexander then tells the man she is unable to represent him because he of his felony record, therefor he never got his services from her. As months past by and the newspaper showed the horrific headline of police officers in the same area as the man, planting drugs on innocent men, Alexander realized that is when the light …show more content…
That statement alone is enough to prevent them from thriving in jobs, schools, and daily living in the community. It is all about branding and they have been branded as people who are deemed for failure. Alexander’s argument in this piece is to signify the extremely impracticality for young black men to behave perfectly all the time. No it is not because they are prone to failure, but because they are human so they will mess up. Moreover, why are they required to be picture-perfect? Young Caucasian men dominate the world and are allowed to make mistakes, but young black men have to be extra cautious even when they have not broken any laws. Yet the laws in place are truly ridiculous. The Jim Crow laws in Wyoming stated, “All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.” (Jim Crow Laws) Something as simple and special as love and wanting to be happily married can land you in prison because it is illegal
Michelle Alexander is a law professor at Ohio State University, civil rights advocate, and author of one of the best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She focuses on the mass incarceration of black males and expresses that policies like the War on Drugs have enabled this tragic occurrence. Several undertakings done in our society have prevented black males from prospering and thriving off the resources we have that are relatively available to those who are Caucasian. We rather watch our black men rot in prison then allow them the chance to go to college and thrive off an alternative survival method.
Discussion
Alexander described that countless blue-collar industrial jobs were taken …show more content…
“We could have responded to this collapse with compassion, care, job training, and economic stimulus. We chose a different road of division, punitiveness, and despair. We ended the War on Poverty, and declared the War on Drugs.” (The University of Chicago, 2013) This new policy tactic mainly aims at black males for incarceration in well thought out targeted ways. She said she was first exposed to the methods of the system while working at the American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina. That is where she met a man who told her that the police had planted drugs on him and framed by the police. Alexander then tells the man she is unable to represent him because he of his felony record, therefor he never got his services from her. As months past by and the newspaper showed the horrific headline of police officers in the same area as the man, planting drugs on innocent men, Alexander realized that is when the light …show more content…
That statement alone is enough to prevent them from thriving in jobs, schools, and daily living in the community. It is all about branding and they have been branded as people who are deemed for failure. Alexander’s argument in this piece is to signify the extremely impracticality for young black men to behave perfectly all the time. No it is not because they are prone to failure, but because they are human so they will mess up. Moreover, why are they required to be picture-perfect? Young Caucasian men dominate the world and are allowed to make mistakes, but young black men have to be extra cautious even when they have not broken any laws. Yet the laws in place are truly ridiculous. The Jim Crow laws in Wyoming stated, “All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.” (Jim Crow Laws) Something as simple and special as love and wanting to be happily married can land you in prison because it is illegal