While I was watching the Bill Moyers interview with Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander I learned that our system treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. I found it interesting that we have a criminal justice system that’s very wealth sensitive. I also learned that two thirds of the people in our state prison system are people of color. We incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. When I look at all of these facts I realize that America has an issue that we should all be concerned about. This interview meant a lot to me being a black male. Right now for black men in the United States, there’s a 32 percent chance you’re going to jail or prison. That right there does not make me feel comfortable every day I wake up. When I hear a statistic like that it only makes me work harder to prove that stat wrong. I am just tired of hearing the racial stereotypes that can make people lose hope. The interview means to me that we have to build a new movement that ends mass incarceration and the history of racial caste in America. After reading The New Jim Crow I learned that a new system of racial control has taken over the United States. I also learned that people of color are targeted at a young age for minor offenses. In the United States today we have a new racial caste system, meaning that we have a system of laws and policies. These laws and policies operate to lock up people of color and poor people of color who live
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them’ enforces the idea that God created us equally with the same amount of dedication. We all have ‘Sanctity of Life’ which means that our ‘body is a temple’ and we should care for it and that of others. The Great Commandment states, “Thou shall love thy neighbour as yourself”. This tells us that we should treat peopleas we would expect them to treat us.The Golden Rule reinforces this: One should treat others as one would like to be treated. This as the Golden Commandment means that we should remember…
of raping a young white woman. Even though many citizens disapprove, a white man named Atticus agrees to defend tom to the best of his abilities; despite many evidence of Tom being guilty the town convicts him and he is killed trying to escape from prison. The reason I chose this book is because they both deal with racism back in the day. The key themes for both books would have to be about never giving up. The maids in the help never gave up even though they knew that many people knew it was them…
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