Color Of Justice, By Michelle Alexander And The Color Of Justice

The war on drugs has been a big problem for years, a lot of years. The number of African Americans in prison has also been a big problem in the United States. Both of these problematic issues have come together, bigger than ever. A lot of African Americans are in jail because of drugs. Michelle Alexander wrote a book named, The New Jim Crow, that she talks about how the Jim Crow era and how it never left. Today, in this country, we still have a lot of segregation and discrimination happening. In her chapter called Color of Justice, we read a lot about how in the Drug War, your skin color counts. I will also talk about the Netflix documentary named 13th directed by Ava DuVernay, which explains the thirteenth amendment stops slavery from occurring. In this paper, I will connect the chapter called Color of Justice by Michelle Alexander to the documentary called 13th which shows the illustration of the war on drugs and the unfair consequences toward people of color.

Cocaine case. It was a case presented that an African American person was likely to go to prison for the possession of crack and a White person was less likely to go to prison for cocaine. Both crack and cocaine are the same things, just different names. The jail sentencing was 18:1 meaning that a black person was more likely to go to jail for the same offense that a white person also did. To the sound of it, it is an unequal system. If two people did the same offense, no matter the color of their skin, both should get the same outcome. This system is racist and it’s bad. People do not ask to become a person of color. A big question that a lot of us is, “are African Americans ever going to be free?”. This film also questions us if this is a possibility of happening in the United States. It doesn’t only go toward African Americans but also other people of color. Latinos are also in the group of having more consequences than a white person, doing the same