The new Jim Crow(Alexander pp 95-120) The thought of mass incarceration and crime has been directly associated with being black. Being black was somehow linked to being a criminal, a potential criminal or a drug dealer educated, or not all black people were covered with this blanket of judgment. White ex-convicts had a better chance at rebuilding their lives when out of prison than the blacks since no matter what they did or how they changed they were still viewed as a criminal and faced all sorts of challenges one being stigmatization. It seemed to be that whiteness mitigates crime and blackness define crime. Black youth faced a myriad of challenges because of their skin color; they were considered suspects, detained, exclusion from employment and housing, denial of educational opportunity, and some were pushed out of schools through racial bias school policies. For the black youth, their first arrest or interrogation was like a rite of passage since it was considered as being ‘made black.' Mass incarceration, however, shouldn’t be considered as the new Jim Crow since the two are said to have a number of differences to them. Mass incarceration like Jim Crow was both as a result of racial opportunism, individuals and institutions such as the legal system took advantage of the racism factor and, as a result bent over sideways and turning a blind eye to the fact that the blacks were most affected by the mass incarceration, the blanket judgment of all blacks as criminals justified the incarceration. The Jim Crow era believed that African Americans were morally and intellectually inferior and seen to be slaves and could not be considered equal to whites in any way. Mass incarceration like any other caste system has been supported primarily by racism, the lack of care for people of other races. Incarceration in the article has been attributed to a number of things; such as racial bias and discrimination, politics of respectability has been widely adopted such that for the blacks to be considered equal then they must prove it by getting an education and working hard and having equally influential jobs, and this has caused the ‘successful’ blacks to shun their fellow blacks who are poor and cannot afford an education as them. The politics of respectability does not take away the blanket of judgment from the blacks and does not solve the mass incarceration it does not end the racism. Civil rights groups have also fallen victim to the politics of respectability by only telling stories of racial injustice that evoke the sympathy of the whites clearly distancing themselves from those convicted and stigmatized daring not to step outside their comfort zone and ruffle feathers. All in all, the main issue is not about the race of the people standing, seating or living next to us or working with or for us it all boils down to caring for all the people we see regardless of their race once we care ...