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chapter 6: The Fire This Time
People begin protesting due to an occurring incident at a local high school, this particular incident was the talk of the town everywhere you went. What happened was a fight and it wasn't what you would call a normal school yard fight many believe that this attack was related to a string of racially charged conflicts and controversies at the school. A criminal justice system was created for punishment for the people involved in the fight but a concern from many people is that this isn't fair and is directed towards young black men. That is where people come in with protests they don't want to stand by and watch what they feel is discrimination more and more people will be protesting until they get what they want and that is equality and fairness. Charges were eventually reduced or dropped this pleased by this.

Rethinking Denial-or,where are civil rights advocates when you need them?
Michelle Alexander believes public consciousness needs to be changed and believed in. Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for what it really is. Civil rights advocates are in denial that they are indeed doing something wrong, its almost as if they are blinded to it all. So many people of color are swept into jail and released every year and we just ignore and make excuses for the systematic discrimination that is occurring. The denial that the civil rights advocates have is affecting the public in understanding the role race plays in society.The big question in this section is if the civil rights community knew there were problems due to racial caste system why were they so slow to react to the situation. The answer in fact is not that they didn't care they claim to have reasons for what they did. These reasons make no sense today. Slowly the civil rights organizations became professional and closed for discussion, completely disconnected from communities. Now lawyers were becoming top heavy to the movement and civil rights leaders became political insiders.Civil rights lawyers took over and became the most important players in racial justice advocacy. Lawyers became embroiled in highly viable in the controversial efforts to end hiring discrimination, soon The movement became a legal crusade it was no longer a moral crusade. As the lawyers and national pundits became more prominent than the clients and citizens they began to distance themselves from the people they labored for, losing touch for the morals for the moment. The law became what the lawyers and lobbyist said it was little or no input from the people who’s fate hung in the balance. lawyers may have been in charge but were lacking the ability to respond to the emergency of the new cast system “ new caste system lawyers have the tendency to identify and concentrate on on problems they know how to solve” But the mass incarceration of people of color was not that kind of problem.Although there was doubt in the lawyers over the years they have made heroic efforts to save the lives of condemned criminals. I think a huge problem was that Advocates had gone great lengths  to identify black people who defy racial stereotypes in search for sympathy for white people.The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals often as early as in their teens. labeling them as criminals then causes people to hate and discriminate on them.Labeling them as criminals is just giving them less opportunity in life when it comes to education, and their future careers. Continuing on this path is not getting anyone anywhere along their just getting further away from ending mass incarceration. No effort is currently made here to describe what should or shouldn't be done in the future to challenge the new caste system.Its as if no one wants to help or get involved or really try to end mass incarceration. The aim of this chapter is simply to reflect on weather traditional approaches to racial justice advocacy are adequate to task at hand.

Waging War
According to The section Waging War, “In barley a decade the war on drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war”(p.74). When the drug war began special weapons and tactics, or also known as SWAT teams formed and were prepared and ready to fight this drug war. SWAT teams originated in 1960s and became more common as the rug war progressed. The swat team has many ways they have to train for their job. The training includes maintaining a proper physical fitness level, working on their shooting ability, also there is potential one training with the SWAT may train in explosives, sniper training, first aid, and combat training. As you can see There is a strict and long training process. The SWAT is required to use force and to do so in most cases requires some type of weapon they will carry or potentially use. Equipment uses varies depending on the unit. The individual clothing you will find the Swat wearing is fire proof coveralls, a body armor vest, tactical vest (to carry amo), nomex gloves, protective eye wear, helmet or gas mask, and a flashlight. Some guns you will hear of them having or carrying are sub machine guns, assault rifles, shot guns, sniper rifles, tear gas grenades, and more. As you can tell by the training and weapon supply during the war on drugs these heavily armed SWAT teams are invading and raiding peoples homes in the middle of the night often just to search for drugs this was causing unnecessary deaths due to the raids causing riots and war in neighborhoods. Waging war source: http://www.lapdauthors.com/swat/swat_history.html

Brown v. Board Education
“ The civil rights movement-racial justice advocacy has generally revolved around grassroots organizing and the strategic mobilizing of public opinion. In recent years however, a bit of mythology has sprung up regarding the centrality of litigation to racial justice struggles.The success of brilliant legal crusade led to Brown v. Board of Education”(p.225). The Brown v. Board Of Education act was the act of segregation between black and white children in public schools. Plaintiffs alleged that segregation was unconstitutional under the fourteenth amendment. This indeed violated the amendment. Plessy v. fergurson was denying relief under the separate but equal doctrine. plessy v. ferguson act claimed segregated schools would not and could not be made equal. First step that was made toward this act was The board of education ruling that they would allow the African american little rock students to attend the all white high school. This was the first major display of segregation being taken out of schools. Brown v. Board Of Education source: http://www.lawnix.com/cases/brown-board-education.html https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100428210906AATdkSW