Learn more about the case above. How does Marissa Alexanders case relate to what you learned in The New Jim Crow.
Compare the “Old Jim Crow” system to the “New Jim Crow” system. What similarities? What differences? Purposes? Methods? Describe how we got here. American's history of racial caste systems has evolved from Slavery to Jim Crow to Mass Incarceration. This history reveals, at every transitional state, the tactics used to employ a racial hierarchy in the American political spectrum. What did you learn from Alexander that affirms or negates the statement above? How does this relate to the administration of the law? Requirements for BLOG POSTS
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Diana Orozco
1/6/2015 11:03:52 am
The “Old Jim Crow” system and “New Jim Crow” system are similar in that they both declare to provide equal opportunities to both white and colored people, but keep them separate. Opportunities then meant ability to use a public restroom, a public drinking fountain, or attend a public school. Nothing was equal. White people had a designated large, well-maintained restroom; colored people had a small horrific restroom. Opportunities now mean the chance to prove one self’s innocence during a court case. However, like the old days, the opportunities are not equal and discrimination becomes an influence. The jails and prisons are the mediums that keep colored people separate from white people today. Laws are given to all American citizens, but when a colored citizen is involved, their rights are denied or used against them. For example, a Florida court judge denied Marissa Alexander’s right to the “Stand Your Ground” Florida state law when she fired a warning shot to defend herself from her abusive husband. However, when Trayvon Martin was shot to death, the right to “Stand Your Ground” was used against him, and was granted to his killer, George Zimmerman. Charges on Zimmerman were dropped. Alexander was sentenced to twenty years in prison for a warning shot, but Zimmerman walked free after taking the life of young Martin. This is one example from many of the criminal justice system failing to fulfill its true duties, and uses its power to keep colored people contained, and white people free.
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DIANA GOMEZ
1/6/2015 11:57:30 am
Diana you have great points off view on your blogs. I, strongly agree that jails and prisons in the U.S. are mainly filled with people of color. Great example with the case of Marissa, Alexander she was not given the equal right by practicing the law “stand your ground.” She had no prior convictions she has a masters degree but due to being a person of color all of that is thrown out the window. As in for George Zimmerman’s case that he killed 4 people due to driving under the influence, but Zimmerman is white “he is to reach to know.”
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DIANA GOMEZ
1/6/2015 11:41:49 am
Using the Criminal Justice system to label people of color as criminals. In the old Jim Crow the people of color were discriminated and slaves. They were treated like animals they had no right because they were uncivilized lesser race. They were viewed as slaves, lacked of intelligence and not considered a real human. “Slaves were as 3/5 of a man, not real, whole human being.” People adopted the idea that people of the African race were bestial, that slavery was for blacks’ own good. It was also mentioned “ Thomas Jefferson in the declaration of independence all men are created equal, but if Africans were not really people.” This was ongoing white supremacy power that leads to dehumanization to people of color.
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Fay
1/6/2015 03:26:16 pm
I see the fever (passion) from the book in your writing. The good news is it will get just better and better. 13 amendment is not the only one has left the door of escape open. Reading (2 and 4) will give you a detailed picture. This is the time I like to say: I hate English. Exceptions in this language are what I dislike the most. You can do it all and use this language to take a life or give 20 years to another. Than you can use the very same language to make a police officer look man of the honor killing, and a man of color to become a suspect!!
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Sandra Montes
1/6/2015 03:41:38 pm
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Fay
1/6/2015 03:32:03 pm
Old Jim Crow, new Jim Crow, both have kept discrimination and dehumanization very much alive.
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Sandra Montes
1/6/2015 03:32:18 pm
The “Old Jim Crow” and the “New Jim Crow” are both methods used by the system to legally discriminate against minority races in the United States. The old method was much more overtly racist and directly expressed racist language, while the new method is more covert and the language used is “politically correct,” yet implicit to demonstrate what is really meant. Alexander describes how racists who hold power within the system have manipulated the law in their favor to evolve and adapt to the changing social, political, and economic contexts that change over time.
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Diana Orozco
1/6/2015 11:44:09 pm
The way you worded the first couple of sentences is exactly what I believe as well. They have created and used the New Jim Crow laws in a subliminal, invisible way that allows many white people in this country to say "There is no problem in our country." As discussed in class, white people have become oblivious (so they say) to the actual problem of race that is in our country now, and has been there for many generations.
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