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Differences between Jim Crow and Mass Incarceration?
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The New Jim Crow Pgs 200-229
Differences between Jim Crow and Mass Incarceration?
Jim Crow is a race based where as Mass Incarceration is not.
Laws that prohibit drugs are enforced but highly discriminatory against people of color.
Drug war was waged against people of color not so much on white people.
Free Write
What is the difference between Jim Crow and Mass Incarceration?
What are some differences between the two?
Absence of Racial Hostility
Jena 6
Black Support for "get tough" polices
Jena, Louisiana
African American support for violent offenders not non-voilent offenders.
Racial tension
- Black student assaulted for attending white party - no charges
- white student pulled gun on black group - blacks charged
- white student assaulted - perpetrators facing up to 100 years in jail
- murder charges - civil rights cautious in accusations
- uneven justice
Racial violence has been rationalized and channeled through our criminal justice system.
African Americans may fear the police as much as their grandparents feared the KKK.
Racial indifference
White victims of the racial caste
MADD (Mother's Against Drunk Driving)
How to respond to system of controls?
Who gets to choose which cases to pursue?
"Improving themselves rather than challenging racial discrimination"
- hundreds of other cases where children were charged with adult crimes
- no publicity, no appeal
- 14-year-olds that face decades in prison for minor dug offences
Created in the 1980's
Drunk driving kills more people annually than drugs.
The same amount of people are arrested annually for both drugs and drunk driving.
"Individuals are forced to make choices in an environment they did not choose."
Racial Bias & discrimination vs. poor education & unraveling morals
Drug Association
Rethinking Denial
Blacks vs. Whites
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act
Something to think about
- Civil rights community slow to acknowledge racial caste system
- fallible human beings
- kept quiet
don't see it, it doesn't exist
Slavery = Exploitation
Jim Crow= Subordination
Mass Incarceration=Marginalization
How can marginalized be addressed? why