09 May 2026
The C.O.W.S. Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow Part 4 Do Not Consent To Police Searches WIthout a Warrant
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The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the f study fourth session on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander is a non-white female with one White parent and one non-white parent. Despite 15 years of institutional celebration, Gus T. anticipated this being one of the 5 Worst Books Ever. Racists generally do not promote literature that provides an accurate understanding of the System of White Supremacy.
Deception by Omission: A serious exploration of prisons and Racism must account for the systemic forces that built them. This book's failure to center COINTELPRO, the torture legacy of Chicago’s Jon Burge, or the raw profitability of caging Black men suggests a deliberate obfuscation of the facts.
Last week's review included:
1. The New Deal Falsification: Alexander claims Black people "benefited disproportionately" from FDR’s New Deal. This is factually incorrect. Historical records from the NAACP and others confirm the program largely excluded Black people from minimum wage increases and Social Security by exempting domestic and agricultural sectors—where 65% of Black workers were employed.
2. Alexander says the "general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education." This is not the "death" of the System of White Supremacy and is a part of Alexander's greater pattern of willfully ignoring facts. Alexander does not itemize what evidence she used to asses the views of the 1954 "general public" nor does the admit the years of widespread violent, White resistance to implementing this court decision.
3. Redlining & Economic Terrorism: While Alexander notes the New Deal was "rife with discrimination," she avoids the term White Supremacy. She omits that these federal policies were the genesis of redlining, effectively mandating Black exclusion from the human right to quality housing.
4. Omission of COINTELPRO: Alexander mentions the White Citizens’ Councils but ignores the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation. This federal program functioned simultaneously to "neutralize" Black leaders and organizations, contributing directly to the unjust incarceration of black people.
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Deception by Omission: A serious exploration of prisons and Racism must account for the systemic forces that built them. This book's failure to center COINTELPRO, the torture legacy of Chicago’s Jon Burge, or the raw profitability of caging Black men suggests a deliberate obfuscation of the facts.
Last week's review included:
1. The New Deal Falsification: Alexander claims Black people "benefited disproportionately" from FDR’s New Deal. This is factually incorrect. Historical records from the NAACP and others confirm the program largely excluded Black people from minimum wage increases and Social Security by exempting domestic and agricultural sectors—where 65% of Black workers were employed.
2. Alexander says the "general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education." This is not the "death" of the System of White Supremacy and is a part of Alexander's greater pattern of willfully ignoring facts. Alexander does not itemize what evidence she used to asses the views of the 1954 "general public" nor does the admit the years of widespread violent, White resistance to implementing this court decision.
3. Redlining & Economic Terrorism: While Alexander notes the New Deal was "rife with discrimination," she avoids the term White Supremacy. She omits that these federal policies were the genesis of redlining, effectively mandating Black exclusion from the human right to quality housing.
4. Omission of COINTELPRO: Alexander mentions the White Citizens’ Councils but ignores the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation. This federal program functioned simultaneously to "neutralize" Black leaders and organizations, contributing directly to the unjust incarceration of black people.
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