I began to read the article Professor G sent us and I decided to google the speech that Professor Alexander spoke when she was promoting her book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". I was just stunned when she mentioned that the Jim Crow laws are not so different from the criminal justice system that there is today. Not just because the Jim Crow laws are gone does it mean that there is not a racial cast system. There is. "The individual success stories of today of Blacks today suggest that the old system does not exist..."
So I guess there is just a reshaping of the system that there was before when there was slavery! That's ridiculous and sad and true. I should also add that it's not just black individuals that do through this discrimination its basically anyone who has been "convicted of a felony" I hate that question that they ask you when you are filling up an application for assistance or work.
Any thoughts??
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