In her book‚ The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander proposes that in order to end this system‚ we must end the War on Drugs. However‚ she also argued that “If we hope to end this system of control‚ we cannot be satisfied with a handful of reforms.” It is true‚ as a complete change
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Jim Farmer‚ a Ph.D. with a passionate freedom soul in a body‚ who had helped found CORE in the forties but soon left‚ uncomfortable with its pacifist orthodoxies. Farmer recognized what had essentially been true since the Civil War: The south would not voluntarily grant civil rights to its second-class‚ black citizens. Change had to be forced on the region by the United States government. Farmer’s avowed aim was to inflame the racists of the South to create a crisis so that the federal government
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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
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Throughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that Jim acts naive occurs halfway through the novel‚ when the Duke first comes into the scene "By right I am a duke! Jim’s eyes bugged out when he heard that..." In the novel‚ Huck Finn‚ one can legitimately
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Jim Frederick’s book “Black Hearts” explores the harrowing account of soldiers from 1st Platoon‚ Bravo Company‚ 502nd Infantry Regiment during their deployment in 2005-2006 through Iraq’s “Triangle of Death”. The story is one of failed leadership at all levels‚ resulting in broken bonds between brothers‚ drug abuse‚ and ultimately the rape and murder of an Iraqi family. The soldiers’ descent into complete isolation was brought on by not only dire combat situations‚ but also a complete disregard for
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different opinions on what being smart means and how they become smart. Just because one place thinks something and a different place thinks something else does not mean that either one is wrong. It just depends on where the person is. In her article‚ Jim Spigler says‚ “We did a study many years ago with first-grade students. We decided to go out and give the students an impossible math problem to work on‚ and then we would measure how long they worked on it before they gave
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human suffering‚ or diminishing the sum of happiness." This quote by suffragist and philanthropist Clara Barton so eloquently describes the issues within the United States prison system and its desperate need to for reformation. Chapter four of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander brought forth the gaspingly oppressive sector of prison (via the judicial branch). Alexander illuminated the reader to the realities of the United States prison system and the covert nuances of racism‚ discrimination‚ and
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According to Sources One‚ Two and Three‚ the Jim Crow laws had a major impact upon the legal and social lives of African Americans living in the Southern States‚ which included restriction on speech‚ food and beverage‚ relationships and many more. Firstly‚ in Source 1‚ Clifford Boxley states that African American males “You don’t mess with white women. You don’t talk back to white women. You don’t sass white women. You don’t even find yourself in the presence of white women alone‚ okay?” This situation
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In the new Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander‚ She talked about how the prison system makes it harder for African Americans.When prisoners leaves from prison there mentally still imprisoned there not used to the real world like most of us there more used to be inside of a cell they have to understand the rules and regulations and now they’re being put as a felon. My first claim talks about they lost their right to vote and the reason for that is they show they don’t respect the society it’s a continued
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Barring black Americans from a status equal to that of white Americans‚ Jim Crow was established as a system of segregation and discrimination in the United States of America. The United States Supreme Court had a crucial role in the establishment‚ maintenance‚ and‚ eventually‚ the end of Jim Crow. The Supreme Court’s sanctioning of segregation (by upholding the "separate but equal" language in state laws) in the Plessey v. Ferguson case in 1896 and the refusal of the federal government to enact anti-lynching
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