1. Why do think Southern racist politicians chose to frame their defense of racial segregation through the language of “law and order”? What special advantages was this choice of words going to give them?

Southern racist politicians framed their defense of racial segregation through “law and order” because it was more so in favor to the poor and working-class white people in opposition of the Civil Rights Movement and to believe that African Americans were the reasons of crime and disobeying the law.

2. Do you think the Southern Strategy is still influencing American politics? Give an example supporting your answer.

I believe that Southern Strategy is still influencing America because of the influence of the Republican Parties that created a stereotypical belief about black people in America as disorderly evolutionized the mistrust between blacks and whites and also the control that the Republican Party has over blue collar workers who enforce such hatred on African Americans. Police Brutality is a main conception of what the Southern Strategy which is in support of the Republican Party.

Question 1. 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)

Michelle Alexander’s view of understanding why mass incarceration is deeply wrong is simply because of how the Government foreseen a War on Drugs but used the African American population in urban, poor, cities as a pawn in the media to make it believable for legislative, monetary support of the war. Alexander quotes, ” The Reagan Administration hired staff to publicize the emergence of crack cocaine in 1985 as a part of a strategic effort to build public and legislative support.” ( Alexander, 5)

Question 2. Why is it that racial disparities in the rates of incarceration “cannot be explained by rates of drug crimes”?

Racial disparities in the rates of incarceration could never be explained by the rates of drug crimes because the government is responsible for such a disgraceful act of genocide to erase the African American communities in the U.S. There can be an outstanding rate of mass incarceration led by drug crimes but the African American communities did not profoundly begin with the “crack cocaine epidemic.” The CIA admitted that “… in 1998 that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States – drugs that were making their way onto the streets of inner-city black neighborhoods in the form of crack cocaine.” ( Alexander, 6)

Question 3. How do you understand the phrase: “the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history.”?

The American penal system has a way of having population control by using the media to convey stereotypical demographics about racial groups and coinciding these groups to experience the systematic oppression or the American Dream depending on the individuals skin tone.