Summary Of Alexander's Speech On Drug Warm Mass Incarceration

Alexander was very detailed in her speech about how drug warm mass incarceration and Jim Crow are connected. She explained that more than half of working-age African American men are having criminal records. People with criminal records lost the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, access to education and face discrimination in employment. African American men with criminal records are living a life that Alexander claimed to be different than African American people that lived in the Jim Crow era. I was surprised to learn that most of these men got arrested during adolescence. They were kids that grow up and live in a poor neighborhood with the high crime rate. However, they were targeted by police at a young age and got arrested for
I saw cops driving around my neighborhood every day, I saw them stop and arrest people. I used to feel very happy that they making the neighborhood safer, but I never question myself why these cops are always wandering around my neighborhood every day. Now that I am living in a middle-class neighborhood, I rarely see a single police car. After watching Alexander's speech, everything starts to make sense and I believe it still happening today in my old neighborhood. The people who got arrested will forever carry a criminal record, which by today law they could be sent back to their country if they're not U.S citizen. On the other hand, African American will lose their human rights and live a life that we now learned is called Jim Crow system. Alexander's statistic and proves showed that our criminal justice system has been focusing to make an arrest on poor people, especially people of color. This issue has been happening for too long to find a solution. Like global warming issue, everyone known and aware of the potential disaster, but how many are committing to make a change to stop global