Most Americans fail to see this as the new caste system.
What is mass incarceration?
100
Standing alone, this is considered futile.
What is criminal justice/prison reform?
100
If you look at the amount of money spent and the reduction in crime, then mass incarceration is a failure. But if mass incarceration is viewed as this, then it is a success.
What is social control or more specifically racial control?
100
Michelle Alexander says affirmative action has worked more like this than as a tool of racial justice.
What is a racial bribe?
100
President Obama has never minimized this.
What is his illegal drug use?
200
This should be the top priority of civil rights advocates.
What is the War on Drugs?
200
In order to return to the rate of incarceration of 1972, we would have to release this many prisoners.
What is 4 out of five?
200
In order to avoid talking about race, these methods are being employed to challenge mass incarceration.
What is race- neutral?
200
Name one thing that is a greater threat to the position of white men than affirmative action.
What is declining wages, downsizing, deindustrialization, globalization, or cutbacks in government services?
200
In 2005, the Govrnment Accountability Office concluded that the $8B Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program contributed a what percentage of reduction to crime.
What is 1%?
300
Civil rights advocacy has moved from grassroots organizing and the strategic mobilization of opinion to this type of advocacy.
What is litigation?
300
In 2003, the U.S. spent this much on police protection, detention, judicial, and legal activities.
What is $185,000,000,000.00?
300
Colorblindness prevents us from seeing this in society.
What are racial and structural divisions? eg. segregated, unequal schools, the segregated, jobless ghettos, and the segregated public discourse.
300
Affirmative action when justified by this, masks the severity of racial inequality and exaggerates claims of racial progress.
What is diversity?
300
When Malcolm X condemned the white man and declared him the enemy, what did he mean by white men?
What is the white patriarchal order that characterized both slavery and Jim Crow?
400
This is the challenge that most civil rights advocates face when confronting mass incarceration.
What are criminals?
400
According to Michelle Alexander, Martin Luther King thought _________ was the root of racial oppression and not merely_________.
What is public opinion and flawed policy?
400
Martin Luther King understood what to be more important than racial hostility to the creation and maintenance of racialized systems of control.
What is blindness and indifference to racial groups.
400
The New caste system depends on these two things.
What is black exceptionalism and a colorblind public consensus that insists that race no longer matters?
400
The movement to end mass incarceration must address this in order to cultivate an ethic of genuine care and compassion for every human being.
What is racial divisions and resentments?
500
Poverty and unemployment statistics do not take into account people who are behind bars. taking this into account, this was the true unemployment rate of noncollege black men.
What is 42%?
500
If there is not a fundamental shift in this, then mass incarceration will remain intact.
What is public consciousness?
500
the colorblindness ideal is premised on this notion.
What is we cannot be trusted to see race and also treat each other fairly or with genuine compassion?
500
the quiet complicity of these people in the war on drugs serves to legitimate the system and insulate it from critique.
Who are minority officers?
Bonus: Even with minority police chiefs, why is there very little change in the policing of poor communities?
500
The title of this chapter in the New Jim Crow, The Fire This Time is a play on words referring to this book.