-M. Alexander claims that the main explanation of why so many people are sent to jail in the U.S. today is deeply wrong. Explain her argument by referring to the various examples she mentions to backup her point. (see p. 1-2)

I view her points as true because she has mentioned different points throughout to back them up. While mentioning the stats of incarceration to the contradictions between years, laws were initiated and the narrative being pushed behind them. Correlating war or drugs to clear racism against black people in a timely manner.

-Why is it that racial disparities in the rates of incarceration “cannot be explained by rates of drug crimes”?

It cannot be explained by rates of drug crimes because there’s so true correlation. So only black people contributed to drug crimes? Black people were or are the only people to exist to do drugs? That would be the claims and it’s not all the evidence, just more narratives.

-How do you understand the phrase: “the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history.”?

To me that meant it grew largely in hopes to control unlike anything done before in history. More so racial controlled, while so power driven.