It is not an easy book to read; the material is difficult to
accept but I think it is very important that everyone reads this book because it
affects us all. The book has a lot of sobering facts and I found it to be very
informative and insightful. How can one justify putting young men in jail for
life for small possession of drugs, while murderers and rapists are given lesser
sentences. The book does its best to educate the public of “Mass Incarceration”
of African American Males. It is not a coincidence and it is not because young
African Americans commit more heinous crimes then young Caucasians.
From Amazon - In
the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race,
explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social
contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly
legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that
it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re
labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination,
housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational
opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion
from jury service—are suddenly legal.
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