To be honest when I first started reading this book, I was extremely questionable about Alexander’s point of view and felt that she might be biased or exaggerating things. The latter is still somewhat true and she even says it herself in this part of the book when she makes an analogy between the past and the present in Chapter 5 but the underlying sentiments are still true. She’s made me more aware of the system that we’re apart of and how things need to change. She makes a point when she says that the majority of America fall into the disillusion that their justice system is doing the right thing, when in fact it’s full of holes and every step of the process may be oppressing African Americans. People do not want to see the faults in their own system and in our case many people have already seen the faults but do not attempt to do anything about it.