The New Jim Crow Part 1 by Martin Mireles https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn Discuss (Intro & Chapter 1) en-us 2018-05-14 04:21:50 UTC 2025-12-24 11:32:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png I found it so interesting that the political parties swing back and forth regarding their messages. Therefore, this problem is not related to political parties; it is an issue on all sides of the political arena. https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/282570928 Nixon said the problem is the blacks (Republican).  Clinton was the president who endorsed the idea of "3 strikes you're out" (which had support from both parties).  This law lead to mass incarcerations; more than any other president (Democrat).
Clinton also created the current racial undercaste with his racial agenda on welfare which changed the welfare system: imposed a 5 year life time limit and banned eligibility for welfare if the person is convicted of a felony.  ]]> 2018-09-17 19:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/282570928 No https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/282577232 I learned everything on my own from peers and my own research. ]]> 2018-09-17 19:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/282577232 I feel it is still a sensitive subject to talk about when it really doesn't have to be. However, if it is brought up in the correct ways, such as our discussions during #PC, people can open up and actually voice the questions they may have and that's when people will truly start to learn and open their minds https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/282997432 2018-09-18 15:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/282997432 I read a very thought provoking post on facebook yesterday titled "How I Discovered I Am White" and I could honestly talk about everything this women wrote but she touched on a particular part of our history and how we've been taught it that really struck me https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283000336 " 'The culture of power determines which version of history is told and retold' 
Prior to the Women's Right Movement, women were stuck in the home while men went to work and supported them. But then women were liberated and able to get jobs working outside of the home. Right?
WRONG. White, Middle to upper class women were 'stuck in the home.' Women of color always worked outside the home. In fact, women of color were probably working the homes of the white women our history is written.
So one the most oft-repeated, trusted narratives about American history erases the history of women of color. It is dead wrong. They are erased. Non-existent."]]> 2018-09-18 16:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283000336 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283030173 Honestly, when the term was first "introduced" I thought it sounded like a good concept. 
Example"Oh I don't see people's skin colors, I judge them for who they are"
But that's just it, people's race and culture is a big part of who they are and we need to notice, accept, and appreciate that.]]> 2018-09-18 16:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283030173 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283195994 Initially, my thoughts that we have been making progress and society's values have and continue to change in a positive manner. 
Now, I think of Malcolm X when I think of racial progress. Systemic racism throughout our history has buried the knife deep. I don't know that we are at a place where we are healing yet when we consider the statistics. They still show astounding disparities and inequities. ]]> 2018-09-18 23:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283195994 Many years ago, I, like the person above, thought this was a nice concept to express the idea that a person was not judging someone solely on their race. Today, I find this concept ridiculous. I would literally have to be blind to not take note of someone's race, and furthermore, I don't want to ignore a part of someone that is integral to who they are and all the history that comes with it. https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283357547 2018-09-19 11:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283357547 I feel that this is fairly accurate from what I've read so far in the first couple of chapters. When our government seems to allow 🤬 to filter into certain neighborhoods and then institute a not needed policy that takes aim at those with brown or black skin, then I do see this as a sort of caste system. Today we are very much still seeing how often poor whites are fighting to keep their place above those of color. https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283362929 I am finding it funny that padlet censored my use of a word that is a synonym for pharmaceutical above. :-)

]]> 2018-09-19 11:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283362929 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283629829 White Privilege. How it is viewed, talked about, etc]]> 2018-09-19 19:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/283629829 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284166467 It is not done enough. In the United States, race is critical to one's identity, especially to people of color. I read "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race" (I have the book and an audiobook copy) and have a whole new perspective on racial identity. Throughout my life, race has consumed every second of my life from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I will elaborate more on that last point if anyone would like at our next meeting.]]> 2018-09-20 22:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284166467 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284168621 Politicians are exploiting immigration and using coded rhetoric. It has been a trend since Operation Wet.back, but I believe it is more visible now more than ever. 
However, they still demonize all people of color using coded rhetoric too. They still utilize the "law and order" rhetoric frequently. ]]> 2018-09-20 22:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284168621 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284171933 It is the same as colorblindness. Ignoring racial inequities and expecting them to get better is similar to ignoring cancer and expecting it to be cured. Both will only grow and progressively get worse. ]]> 2018-09-20 23:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284171933 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284175483 I agree with this. Jim Crow laws were enacted to keep people of color from gaining power and respect after slavery ended, and I feel that mass incarceration does the same thing.]]> 2018-09-20 23:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284175483 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284175676 Caste to me means a group in society that is treated differently. Although there are many successful middle and upper class people of color, I do think that many of them got there despite their skin color. I do think though that it depends on where and in what socioeconomic level a person is raised and the attitudes there. ]]> 2018-09-20 23:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284175676 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284176071 I agree. A person’s race might be able to be ignored if we lived in a country where people of color had the same culture and treatment as whites, but that is generally not the case in this country.]]> 2018-09-20 23:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284176071 Agreed https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177103 I agree as well. Mass incarceration is the redesigning of laws and systems that keep those of a privileged class in power. The history of the USA is riddled with such systems that have oppressed indigenous groups, slaves and immigrants. From the  1887 General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), Separate but Equal, Jim Crow, Segregation, Truth in Sentencing, Mandatory minimums etc etc. 

]]> 2018-09-20 23:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177103 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177280 If someone is indifferent to the discrimination based on race in our society, then they are willingly ignorant, and I think that’s a form of racism in and of itself.]]> 2018-09-21 00:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177280 Yes, it seems that although the Republican administrations were more aggressive in their strategies to keep people of color from gaining power and respect, the Democratic administrations were not much better. They are all worried more about white voters, and no wonder when mass incarceration has disenfranchised so many people of color. https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177591 2018-09-21 00:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177591 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177915 I teach freshmen about Jim Crow and lynching. We read To 🤬 a Mockingbird, which brings up the history of racism but has nothing from the point of view of a person of color, so I got supplementary materials from Facing History, actual testimony from black men and women of the time about what their lives were like. I think these events are an integral, though ugly, part of American history and they should know about them.]]> 2018-09-21 00:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284177915 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284181683 Yes, definitely. Make America Great Again seems so say, let’s go back to the days when white people could oppress people of color indiscriminately.]]> 2018-09-21 00:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284181683 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284181875 Not enough.]]> 2018-09-21 00:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284181875 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284181947 I recently spoke with a mother of a student of color at our school and she said that he has experienced a lot of racist remarks and treatment and nothing has been done about it]]> 2018-09-21 00:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284181947 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284182076 It’s important to talk about it. Otherwise nothing will change.]]> 2018-09-21 00:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284182076 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284195352 Colorblindness is just another way to walk away and sweep under the rug hundreds of years of oppression and torture. It's a very convenient way to dismiss what has never had to be acknowledged.

]]> 2018-09-21 01:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284195352 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284195868 Racial indifference is the same as being complicit in racial matters. To be "racially indifferent" is to continue to condone the systems that keep the system of race in tact. ]]> 2018-09-21 01:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284195868 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284197283 Politician have always used the system of race in order to advance their agenda. Most recent example, "Illegal Immigrant" ]]> 2018-09-21 01:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284197283 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284206675 2018-09-21 03:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284206675 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284214759 2018-09-21 04:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/284214759 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285108402 There is slightly newer data, but I like how much this website covers.]]> 2018-09-24 15:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285108402 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285109846 It goes back to teaching real history and integrating different perspectives into the curriculum. Otherwise, the majority of people only know and have one viewpoint.  ]]> 2018-09-24 15:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285109846 mmireles5 https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285112915 I want to talk more about white identity. ]]> 2018-09-24 16:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285112915 It depends... https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285276972 What do we expect from a voter and what preparations should be expected? At one point only old white dudes with land could vote, and now ostensibly any citizen (clearly limited more than many recognize per Ch. 2). Everyone is prepared to vote to some degree -- they exist here and their opinion matters even if its illinformed.]]> 2018-09-24 22:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285276972 It's hard https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285278481 It's not an easy subject and there is fear of missteps. It is at the same time essential if we look to grow as a school, community or a nation.]]> 2018-09-24 22:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285278481 Thank you for this post. mrsandersen https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285289126 2018-09-24 23:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mmireles5/vtsd66vefhxn/wish/285289126