Forgive me for not having more details on hand right now. So far in my reading of her book, Alexander’s thesis has three main prongs of support. The first is h

Forgive me for not having more details on hand right now. So far in my reading of her book, Alexander’s thesis has three main prongs of support. The first is historical. When we look back at Jim Crow, do we say that grandfather clauses and literacy tests were about improving the quality of citizen engagement at the polls? Of course not. Jim Crow was designed to reaffirm a racial hierarchy within the constraints of the new constitutional amendments. Is it inconceivable that we would get policies designed to reaffirm racial hierarchy in the colorblind constraints of the civil rights movement? The second is rhetorical. What specific appeals did politicians make to support the War on Drugs? What images did they use? And the third, as a comment below points out, are the results of the drug war. Was it carried out in a racially evenhanded manner? The War on Drugs is large enough that there can be no smoking gun tape of politicians conspiring to pull one over on society and do the racism again.