Postracialists choose to completely ignore the starkly enduring disparities that exist between the Black and white communities. Yet despite being silenced by both
assimilationists and
segregationists, antiracists keep fighting. They join the Occupy movement of 2011, demand reparations for slavery, fight in the struggle for LGBT rights, and—most of all—continue to oppose the racism of the criminal justice system. In
Michelle Alexander’s 2010 bestseller
The New Jim Crow, the law professor points out that all the forms of racist discrimination technically outlawed (such as housing discrimination, the inability to vote, and forced labor at less than minimum wage) are still in place when it comes to criminals.