History Repeats Itself

This just as the article where it compares the incarceration system to the Jim Crow laws relays the message of how these power structures have never disappeared but renamed themselves. Coate makes this case through giving different but interrelated perspectives giving insights from slaves who had to undergo slavery. Through this, we are able to see the pain and anxiety slave families felt of fear of being separated from their family. Coates then leads us to see the rate whites were exploiting blacks, slaves being responsible for millions of the United State’s revenue. Slave trading actually being an industry within itself. Then, Coates brings us to showing us modern day redlining within Chicago while explicitly having the same laws, but the same implications. I thought that redlining has now evolved in Chicago, the strategy of these white home owners aiming to be insufferable to live with. It is surprising that these blatant acts of discrimination are unnoticed and unpunished hence, history repeating itself.