We read a article in class about a lady saying that most people have broken a law but they just haven't been caught. The people who have been caught get treated unfairly once they do their time and get out of jail. Michelle Alexander has been telling people that she was a criminal. She is a fairly clean-cut, light-skinned black woman with fancy degrees from Vanderbilt University and Standford Law School. She is a law professor and once clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
She has asked people, "Haven't you ever committed a crime?". When she asked people that question they did not know what she meant. She tells them what she means and they say they are not criminals. She sees them as someone who hasn't been caught. She thinks they are no better than many of those who have been branded felon for life.
Michelle says, "Perhaps there should be a box on the census for that says 'I'm a criminal."
Everyone who has ever committed a crime would be required to check it. If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citzenship to those branded felons."
She thinks that millions have been forced into a permanent second-class status because they once committed crime.
I think that if it was a very serious problem like a murder or rape then it should be held against them. Jobs shouldn't turn down people because they are a criminal. They could be great hard workers but that job they are applying for will never accept them because they have a criminal record.
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