The C.​O.​W.​S. Michelle Alexander’s 🐮🛎️ The New Jim Crow Part 9 ”Many Wonderful, Good-Hearted White People”

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 9th session on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander has a living White mother and a deceased black father. Despite 15 years of institutional celebration for her work, Gus T. anticipated this title being one of the "5 Worst Books Ever." History shows that racists generally do not promote literature that provides an accurate understanding of the System of White Supremacy. Deception by Omission: A serious exploration of prisons and Racism must account for the systemic forces that built them. This book's failure to center COINTELPRO, the torture legacy of Chicago’s Jon Burge, or the raw profitability of caging Black men suggests Alexander is guilty of a whole lot of lying. This week, we dismantle the sheer absurdity of Alexander's "Passing" analogy. She explicitly equates a Black worker maintaining basic professional boundaries at an office job to a light-skinned Black person cutting off their family to "pass" as White under Jim Crow. We expose how this completely irrational logic reinforces the significance of her biracial background—revealing a detached, elite perspective that pathologizes normal Black workplace survival tactics. We also pull the receipts on her consistent pattern of selective framing. Alexander repeatedly highlights interviewees who struggle with the King’s English, curse, and are framed as illiterate or incompetent—inadvertently validating the exact racist stereotypes that suggest Black people don't deserve justice. Plus, we expose her total historical erasure of Chicago police commander Jon Burge, showing how her academic elite narrative completely mutes real-world structural terror. #COINTELPRO #TheRedboneDeception #TheCOWS17Years INVEST in The COWS – [http://paypal.me/TheCOWS](http://paypal.me/TheCOWS) Cash App: [https://cash.app/$TheCOWS](https://cash.app/$TheCOWS) CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#