M. Alexander claims and argues that the main explanation of why so many people are sent to jail in the U.S today is deeply wrong. She supports this argument by discussing upon “The racial dimension of mass incarceration is it’s most striking feature”. Within her article “The New Jim Crow”, she discusses about how the Unites States is the only country to imprison of it’s “racial or ethic minorities”. The racial disparities in the rates of incarceration “cannot be explained by the rates of drug crimes” because stating in her article, M. Alexander describes “Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates”. She also goes on to state how the media portrayed mainly African Americans the main source of crime rates and illegal drug crimes to strike up in the U.S. The phrase “the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history” means the penal system continues to have control on who to target, which continues to impact our minorities lives.