I like how you connected the idea of masculinity and the incarceration system. The idea that being perceived as strong on something, in this case crime, and protecting something or a group of people has driven people throughout history. Several of our readings have stated that white men lynched African American men based on the idea that they had harmed white women who were thought of as symbols of purity who were only for white men. In the War on Drugs, this can be applied to white communities as politicians did not want drugs to enter white neighborhoods and ruin their children.