In the face of Mass Incarceration under "The New Jim Crow" what do we do?

One thing we can do is define and reference the reality we are experiencing. That is what powerful people do. Michelle Alexander is providing much needed information. However, she is referencing it from a position of weakness. True the phrase "New Jim Crow" does pique one's attention, but we need to be more proactive. For instance, I have been using the term "ASCENDIVISM" to describe people who have "incarceration experience." If a person is re-incarcerated in a year's time (in some jurisdictions) they are considered RECIDIVISTS. Recidivism focuses on a failure to enter society and not become re-incarcerated. Ascendivism focuses on success. We have to identify, and study those who succeed after an incarceration experience just as the Department of "Justice" monitors those who fail. The purpose is to create a model of success for those who enter the Criminal Justice system and those who we want to avoid it.

During the chattel stage of the MAAFA, there were abolitionists, people livicated to abolishing chattel Maafa. Now we have to focus ourselves spiritually, mentally, emotionally and economically, not to abolish the "New Jim Crow" but to increase ascendivism among our people. The African Ink Road was an economic system based on knowledge which spanned from Timbuktu in Mali to Kaduna in Nigera. It also reached into Niger and Chad. They wrote libraries full of books, shared knowledge and engaged in economic vitality with each other.