In the article‚ The New Jim Crow‚ author and professor Michelle Alexander eloquently examines and delves into how mass incarceration in the United States is a new type of class structure‚ a new racial caste system (Alexander 7). Her motive is to increase understanding on the issue‚ be a force for change‚ and foster dialogue. She provides the reader context on her life by giving personal examples as well as using facts and background to cement her thesis. Alexander constructs both a compelling and
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I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ Michelle Alexander examines our current criminal justice system and the mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. She argues that the War on Drugs and drug offense convictions are the single most compelling cause for the magnitude of people of color behind bars. Prisons are used as a system of racial and social control that function in the same way as Jim Crow laws. It is no longer legal to discriminate against
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you think that is okay for a political leader to bend or break the law for the good of the country? No it may not be right to harm someone or allow something bad or harmful to happen just because you are following the law. If you break the law with any type of good intentions of not hurting anything or anybody‚ it should be okay. Breaking this law Julius was helping the huge population of their people. At the same time breaking a law isn’t okay! If you expect someone to follow the rules‚ everybody
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The movie “From Swastika to Jim Crow” was produced in 2000. Even though‚ it was made in 2000 there was many connections to today’s current events. The speaker stated‚ they wanted to present the movie before the election to understand and analyze an educator’s point of view. However due to the hurricane they had to postpone the movie‚ until after the election which made this event and discussion more prevalent. The movie was a documentary explaining the similarities between Nazism in Germany and
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was created by a neighbor who’s daughter used to be a friend of Megan’s. Because this happened in 2006‚ there were hardly any laws about cyberbullying. Lorie Drew‚ the mother who created the fake account‚ was only
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The soda law introduced by Mayor Bloomberg to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 fl. oz. at restaurants across the city will have zero to minimal economic impact on people who are currently buying them. The soda ban will have an extremely small net positive economic impact on businesses. And the rationale behind this is the fact that whoever drinks more soda will acquire more soda‚ regardless of how big or small the drink is. A 20 fl. oz. soda‚ when banned will be replaced by a 16 fl. oz. cup
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Laws such as the forfeiture laws allows law enforcement agencies to take valuable items with as little evidence and putt the weight on the suspect to prove their own innocence. Depending on the number of drug arrest the funding for drug force will increase‚ so the police intentionally target low level drug dealers versus violent offenders which then results in over drug arrests and invade poor African American neighborhoods with lack of evidence ( Distorted‚ 2015). The CIA was responsible for the
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Jessica Dugan MGMT Marsland November 10‚ 2015 Coogan Law As recently as the 1930s it was not uncommon to see children in the work force‚ earning their own wages. It was not until 1908 that the National Child Labor Committee formed. President Roosevelt did not sign the Fair Labor Standards Act until 1938. (Tratner) Today‚ however‚ minors in the workforce have strict regulations in place for their protection. In fact before the age of fourteen‚ minors in the United States are not legally aloud to have
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