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The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Apr 04, 202112th rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Author constantly states that Jim Crow is very similar to incarceration resulting from the “War on Drugs”. However, they are not even closely the same. Jim Crow applied to mostly all blacks, and some non-blacks. For the most part, individual blacks had ZERO control of the situation regarding segregation in education, housing, health care, jobs, interracial marriage, or voting. Jim Crow was unavoidable in those states. War on Drug incarcerations applied equally to all races (although applied disparately) and individuals had TOTAL control to not break drug laws. Resulting felons, white or black, can't vote (in some states), obtain federal welfare benefits, or get certain jobs. Incarceration is totally avoidable by not selling illegal drugs. The author blames all disparate statistics on race-ism. To her statistics are causality. Not once is individual personal responsibility mentioned as a cause of felony conviction. For balance, I suggest reading Dr. Thomas Sowell’s book Black Rednecks and White Liberals.