A review by snowbenton
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

4.0

Not quite ten years ago my sister and I were driving to San Diego from Phoenix. We got stuck in some traffic in the middle of nowhere on the 8 past the California border. We finally got to the front and saw it was traffic checkpoint and we ended up being waved right through. I barely came to a complete stop. After half a mile of driving away in stunned silence I said, did they just wave us through because we're white? And it felt insane but neither of us could come up with a better reason.

Now I'm reading this book learning that not only do cops regularly racially profile people, but many states have that protection for inherent racism stitched right up into their laws.

This book is frustrating but necessary to read.