Why Are The Jim Crow Laws Be Abolished

The Jim Crow laws may have been abolished but that does not mean that the injustice for minorities is abolished. Minorities are facing a significant amount of injustice based on their skin color. More African American’s and Latinos are being arrested and discriminated more because of these harsher penalties. For example, the war on drugs, was actually not a way to get drugs off the streets and to better the communities. The campaign convinced many Americans to go along with it and see that it was beneficial for our country at the time, but it was the start that modernly divided of African Americans and Whites without people take notice. Many people were convinced that all African Americans were cocaine addicts or crack heads which lead to the racial disparities of the criminal justice system in the United States.
While this was happening a subtle problem was being fixed; African American’s were being taken off the street and thrown in prison. “The police, prosecutors, and judges treated blacks more severely than whites because they believed blacks were inherently criminals and menaces to society who needed to be put away in order to protect the community.” (Ford, 2010). According to drugpolicy.org, “The number of people behind bars for nonviolent drug law offenses increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 in 1997.” The numbers skyrocketed and this was the first sign that the Jim Crows came back and were doing what they were suppose to do; dividing people by