The next chapter was Carrie McCandless viewpoint on traveling to see where her older brother Christopher McCandless died. When Carrie was in the helicopter flying to the ominous bus, she could not believe that Chris had backpacked through such terrain and lived off the land for one hundred days. However, she always knew that if Chris put his mind to something, he would always achieve it. Finally, she saw the rundown school bus where her brother had died. She tried to be strong but failed, and wept.
READING RESPONSE TEMPLATE LABR 2P91 Article: (Spence, Lester, (2016). “Policing Class.”) Summary: Spence’s main argument he makes in Policing Class, is that police violence seen specifically in the state of Baltimore, but also seen throughout the United States, is not just a expression of racism but coincides with class.
The first of these was the progress of the civil rights movement, which exposed America’s racial hierarchy and incited white backlash. Second was the significant increase in the crime rate across all types, especially violent crime from 1965-1979. Lastly, street protests and rioting were becoming increasingly frequent, particularly in Detroit and after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a result, Richard Nixon ran for president and was subsequently elected under the premise of ‘restoring law and order,’ on the promise that the wave of crime was not going to be the wave of the future in the United States of America, and by playing on the fears of the predominantly white ‘nation’. Sounds familiar...
“...Much of the recent crime increase threatens the vitality of America’s cities–and thousands of lives–it is not, in itself, the greatest danger in today’s war on cops. The greatest danger lies, rather, in the delegitimation of law and order itself’ (Mac Donald). In the book “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe,” published in the year of 2016, author Heather Mac Donald provides credible evidence to expand on her viewpoint of our country’s current criminal crisis. In addition to “The War on Cops, Mac Donald has written two other books. Her works “Are Cops Racist?”
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow In “The New Jim Crow”, author Michelle Alexander argues that the war on drugs is just an excuse to target African Americans and keep millions of black people in poverty or in jail. Alexander thinks that racism is still very prevalent in today’s world. She believes that the criminal justice system uses the system of mass incarceration to control black people and exclude them from the political process. Many African American people are not allowed to vote because they have gone to jail and they are labeled felons for life.
Document 3, a letter to Nelson Rockefeller, the Republican governor of New York, sent in 1971, announces, “This letter is written to you by a law abiding citizen who feels she is discriminated against in favor of dope addicts…I can no longer walk on the streets and when I am afraid in my own home.” This letter refers to the failure of the government to address the problems of urban danger and criticizing the failure of the government policies and social welfare programs hat aided the lower classes of society rather than the contributing working class. This practice of providing to these noncontributing members of society stimulated crime and frustrated those, like the individual in Document 3, who “works every day, pays taxes, and lives by the rules.” There was a lack of law and order present throughout the nation along with greater civil unrest as well, as is seen in President Johnson’s plans for a “Great Society,” designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, that resulted in riots, especially in inner cities, including Chicago and Washington, such as the five-day Watts riot that resulted in deaths and the injury of thousands, and the 1966 Detroit riots that killed 43 individuals. These protests were active displays of the frustration of the American people in the leaders of the decade and their lack of assistance to the working class of the nation.
Sylvia Mendez, A piece of history forgotten, an ennoble human being who uplifted the loathsome cruelty of segregation in public schools. In 1943, students of mexican descent we enrolled in different schools from the caucasian students. Sylvia and her siblings were denied to go to the caucasian school. The Mendez family started Fighting for equal rights and education ,so that every mexican child could attend the caucasian schools. Sylvia created a landmark to our community and hope to all of us to stop the wicked racism world living among us.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Rev. ed.). New York, NY: The New Press. Michelle Alexander in her book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" argues that law enforcement officials routinely racially profile minorities to deny them socially, politically, and economically as was accustomed in the Jim Crow era.
For this semester, we read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. The book talks about how minorities face, especially black men, being treated like second-class citizens by the criminal justice system and this leading to our modern mass incarceration problem. Alexander goes as far as to say “We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it” (2). This is shown by the War on Drugs.
Annotated Bibliography Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York: The New Press. Alexander opens up on the history of the criminal justice system, disciplinary crime policy and race in the U.S. detailing the ways in which crime policy and mass incarceration have worked together to continue the reduction and defeat of black Americans.
The author of the section I chose to discuss in this journal name is Cynthia Crosson-Tower. This portion of the chapter describes how a child’s environment can guide and mold their path and journey in life(Crosson-Tower, 2017). One interesting thing she wrote was that a kid that has been faced poverty in any portion of their life triples the chance that they will remain underprivileged up to the age 30 contrary to kids not underprivileged. The author adds that the lengthier of the time a kid experience such underprivileged life the greater the risk they will experience in their adulthood. Another point the writer mentions is that money is not the only concern, things such as being worried about their necessities being achieved.
The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world, largely due to the war on drugs. Approximately 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated, which is more than any industrialized country in the world. The article “Why Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar” focuses on the criminalization of “urban space” and the imposed measures of lengthy prison terms for minor petty crimes. The author Thompson discusses the origins of the urban crisis beginning with the inception of Lyndon’s Law Enforcement Administration Act of 1964, which also influenced the mass incarceration policies during Reagan’s Presidency. The article continues to elaborate on the decline of the labor movement and how
We learned that over the last 40 years the police department of the City of Miami and Miami- Dade County have experienced their share of civil disturbances. To illustrate, there have four cases of race riots between both police departments which led to innovation to be involved in their pursuits to better their responses. These were the race riots in 1968, the Liberty City Riot, 1980, the McDuffie Riot, 1982 Luis Alvarez Riots, and 1989 Loranzo Riots within the Liberty City over town areas. However, the article stated that these riots were resulted by either police shooting of young black men, or thanks to the federal government the deporting of a young Cuban boy. Thus, it was not until the civil arrest of the 1980’s McDuffie Riot which seemed
Synthesis Research Paper Everyday growing up as a young black male we have a target on our back. Society was set out for black males not to succeed in life. I would always hear my dad talk about how police in his younger days would roam around the town looking for people to arrest or get into an altercation with. As a young boy growing up I couldn’t believe some of the things he said was happening. However as I got older I would frequently hear about someone getting killed by the police force.
“The New Jim Crow” disproves claims that racism is dead. Many white Americans believe that full equality has been reached, but they would have a rude awakening realizing that many African Americans cannot vote due to being a convicted felon. One in three young, black men are incarcerated in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of African Americans have been in prison due to drug convictions that have arose from the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs was introduced by President Reagan as a way to combat the crack cocaine crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, but it is seen by people of color as a genocide against black people.
