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Let's Talk About Race- Resisting the Temptation of Colorblind Advocacy
The current justice system is oblivious to the term colorblindness. Minorities are currently being incarcerated for minor crimes, such as drug pocession far more than their Caucasian counterparts. Also,minorities are subjected to serving longer prison sentences. When the minority inmates come out of prison, the impact of the incarceration and the magnitude of their crimes changes how society views the inmates and how it chooses to accept them. According to Michelle Alexander, families are being torn apart because the mass incarceration creates more crime instead of solving it[1]. Many of the former inmates return to the life crime.Also Michelle Alexander states that the mass incarceration is the causation of racial control. In the last past years, society has slowly become protective of the innocent people.

Against Colorblindness
The term colorblindness refers to Americans and society in general who refuse to see anything beyond race. Society now has become blind to race and are judging people of different races, particularly African Americans, of what they do. According to Michelle Alexander, African Americans are being rounded up for drug crimes when in fact it is their white counterparts who are committing and leading these crimes. The criminal justice system is systematical flawed in judging a criminal by their color not by who they truly are. Michelle Alexander states that the severely broken criminal justice system views the incarceration of African American not as people with race who are in jail, but just as men, just as human beings with no race[2]. In this example, Michelle Alexander is trying to show that the criminal justice system overlook the race,but it looks at the crime that is being committed by the individual. However, the criminal justice system treats all criminals the same even though an African American has done it for the first time whereas their Caucasian counterparts tend to be undercover officers or confidential informant.

Schu441 (talk) 03:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC) Sui ChuSchu441 (talk) 03:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was a notorious serial killer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who killed people outside of his own race. According to Jeff Mariotte,author of Criminal Minds: Socialpaths, Serial Killers and Other Deviants,serial killers usually kill victims of their own race. His victims were of all different racial backgrounds. Most of them were Black, some were Asians, others were Latino. The authorities thought that the motive for the killings was race. Although Dahmer never stated that his motive was race, it was implied due to how diverse his killings and victims were. Race may not have been a motive for the killing, it was, however, one of the reasons or probable causes that can lead to the motive.

Education
The topic of race has always been a part of education. Over the past few years, the federal government, particularly the Obama Administration proposed and implented the Affirmative Action. According to Merriam Webster, affirmative action is defined as the practice of improving the educational and job opportunities of members of groups that have not been treated fairly in the past because of their race, sex, etc.