“The New Jim Crow” 0
It’s the chain gangs of the past remade for today’s prison industrial complex.
David Cook explains:
It’s the new Jim Crow.
“Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color ‘criminals’ and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind,” writes Michelle Alexander in her stunning “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
“As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow,” she writes. “We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
