Kamryn Johnson Race Relations 9/22/22 RETHINKING THE COLOR LINE CHAPTER 28 QUESTIONS FROM THE NEW JIM CROW: INCLUDE PAGE NUMBERS 1. HOW DOES MICHELLE ALEXANDER DESCRIBE THE BIRTH OF THE NEW JIM CROW? WHAT CONTRIBUTED TO BIRTH OF THE NEW JIM CROW? Michelle Alexander says it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways in which it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once labeled a felon, even for a minor drug crime, the old forms of discrimination are suddenly legal again. In her words, “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” // When Obama was elected. 2. EXPLAIN AND PROVIDE DETAILS OF “OPERATION VALKYRIE.” “The plan was known as Operation Valkyrie. The idea was that, once Hitler was dead, the military would claim that the assassination was part of an attempted coup by the Nazi Party and the Reserve Army would seize key installations in Berlin and arrest high-ranking Nazi leadership.” 3. SUMMARIZE THE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. INCLUDE HOW SOME DEFENDERS BELIEVE THAT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAIR AND NONDISCRIMINATORY. African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at five times the rate of whites. Black men face disproportionately harsh incarceration experiences as compared with prisoners of other races. 4. WHAT WAS THE “UNITED STATES V. BRIGNONI-PONCE COURT RULING? EXPLAIN. “The Fourth Amendment held not to allow a roving patrol of the Border Patrol to stop a vehicle near the Mexican border and question its occupants about their citizenship and immigration status, when the only ground for suspicion is that the occupants appear to be of Mexican ancestry. Except at the border and its functional equivalents, patrolling officers may stop vehicles only if they are aware of specific articulable facts.” Because of their interest in preventing the illegal entry of aliens at the border, the minimal intrusion of a brief stop if an officer suspects that a particular vehicle may contain aliens who are illegally in the country may stop the car briefly, question the driver and passengers about their citizenship and immigration status, and ask them to explain suspicious circumstances. 5. EXPLAIN THE ACLU’S BLACK LIST ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT.
