The plan:
1. Definition Essay
2. WLTC
3. Literature Circles: Review arguments. Share your inductive and deductive arguments. Put in standard form.
4. Homework: Complete the book Alexander's book. Review/Skim Chapter 6 in WLTC.
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Vincent Corral Jr
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English 5
15 March 2012
Cyber Assignment
The New Jim Crow is the speculation by author Michelle Alexander making a case that a new caste system has been put in place to control and incarcerate minorities, more specifically African Americans. She has made her case through evidence from history and statistics that the act of slavery and the old Jim Crow is no different than what is being used in today's justice system. She has shown evidence that the war on drugs was the excuse used to target black americans that would keep them stuck in the lower middle class.
In an article written by Jennifer Schuessler, she points out in Alexander's work that her arguments relate directly from the beginning of Richard Nixon and Ronald Regan's was on drugs. With the crackdowns of drug user's and distributers, they were able to target black men to exploit them of their crimes. Schuessler also points out in the article,"...nearly one-third fo black men are likely to spend time in prison at some point, only to find themselves falling into permanent second-class citizenship after they get out" (Schuessler).
The definition of Jim Crow over all is the reincarnation of the last caste systems used to control the black population. In regards to this, the fact that Alexander was able to point out these issues is that racism still exists today. The way this new caste system was delivered was to keep the mass population unaware of such a caste system existing as a racist approach and to protect the interest of the authoratative powers to control and incarcerate minorities and African Americans.
Work Cited
Schuessler, Jennifer. "Drug Policy as Race Policy: Best Seller Galvanizes the Debate." NYTimes.com 6 March 2012. Web. 15 March 2012
Monsoon Pandey
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English 5
15 March 2012
Jim Crow Definition Essay
Throughout the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarnation in the Age of Colorblindness” Michelle Alexander points out how racism and discrimination towards the minority never ends in our nation. She specially denotes that segregation and prejudice towards African American has not ceased even after 150 years since the end of slavery and 50 years since the Civil Rights movement. As the era progresses, and as the injustice and segregation becomes more transparent and obvious, the government attempts to set new “affirmative action” but the segregation still does not go anywhere, but rather takes a new ambiguous form.
At this era, the segregation and the ways of “The New Jim Crow” is more difficult to discern for the general public because they are mostly hidden slyly within the laws or exists as stereotypes within the society. The War on Drugs is one of the most furtive forms of segregation that African Americans are victims of. Judge Clyde Cahill, an African American judge of the Federal District of Missouri, declared that there is a hundred-to-one ratio racially discrimination in violation of the Fourteen Amendment, although “no admissions of racial bias or racist intent could be found in the record”. Cahill acknowledged that many people may not believe they are motivated by discriminatory attitudes but argued that we all have internalized fear of young black men, a fear reinforced by the media.
As Alexander states, it is time to end affirmative action and let all Americans compete on equal footing. Segregation and racism has been going on for years and within all kind of races, not just black. Kids are being born in a society where their future and personality has already been outlined by the society, and where injustice is still happening because the minority is expected to accept the mediocrity. Like Michelle Alexandra pointed out in her novel, “the fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.”
Work Cited
Chettiar, Inimai. "Why Mass Incarceration is really the New Jim Crow" Power&Politics. 24 Feb., 2012. Web. 15 March, 2012