The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

We have become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste in America.

Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. The fact that the meaning of race may evolve over time or lose much of its significance is hardly a reason to be struck blind. We should hope not for a colorblind society but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love.