The New Jim CrowMichelle Alexander wrote a book called “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness ". The original Jim Crow was a racial caste system that separated whites from blacks, where whites were privileged and considered the chosen ones while blacks were taught to be a minority and used as servants between 1877 and the 1960s. The system Jim Crow kept whites superior to blacks with laws created to favor whites. It was a legal way to prevent African Americans from accessing equal education, from voting; it was a “separate but equal” system. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed to prohibit discrimination based on skin color. Even though this law was passed, we continue to live in a society where discrimination is entirely relevant but systematized. Thanks to Michelle Alexander's book, we can understand her argument that there is a new form of legal discrimination, even though the laws state that discriminating against an individual based on their race is illegal. Michelle explains that there is currently mass incarceration of black men in the United States. Using, possessing, or selling drugs is illegal, but laws have been systematically created to make this impossible. She claims that the criminal justice system uses the war on drugs as a way to discriminate and repress the black man. The labeling perspective comes into play with Michelle's statement because African American men have been labeled as the race attached to deviant acts. Because black men are committed to the deviant act of drugs, the criminal justice system has created laws that impose a mandatory minimum sentence to be served for the smallest amount of drugs. He once served time in a correctional facility... middle of diary... Interviewees talked about how much he loved one of the drug dealers who got him started on the hustle. He always provided him with money and goods until he felt old enough to earn his own money and become a drug dealer himself. The film explains how children growing up in these regions make rational choices because in their eyes, selling and using is a norm and an option for survival. “You do what you have to do” according to Shanequa. Unfortunately, this has become a vicious cycle because the war on drugs is so strict that it has become a system of slavery or casteism that has taken much of the black race and incarcerated them for crimes related to the drug. as long as the crimes of murder. This system is dehumanizing and should be examined and abandoned. Every race uses and sells drugs, it is unfair to use drug laws only to control the black race and imprison them for petty crimes..