African American Injustice

Many people believe that Whites are treated better than minorities. I agree with this opinion, however; I believe that the justice system favors Whites more than African-Americans. Throughout history it shows that the criminal justice system was never in place to serve and protect every human being. When slavery was legal the criminal justice system created laws to enslave human beings. It is not a surprise that the justice system does not work in favor with African-Americans because it has never worked in our favor. The legal system only benefits those of White people.

“That’s one pain that will never go away until the day you die,” she said. “You have to live with that pain. There’s no closure. There’s no nothing. Especially when the person or child was so violently taken away from you.” said Juanita Young, mother of Malcom Ferguson, who 's son was killed by the result of police brutality. He is not the first or last person of the black minority to be cheated by the justice system. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans(Alexander). The justice system in America was set up to protect citizens while upholding social control and deterring crime. But the poor guidance within the system has caused racial disparities to persist at every level of the U.S. criminal justice system. All across the country, African Americans receive racial discrimination in the justice system ranging from bias drug arrests, police brutality, to incarceration.

I am the Vice Chair for the Duke Energy African American Advocacy program and every year we have a Black History Celebration where we educate others about the important contributions that African Americans have made throughout history. This year our celebration is based on influential African Americans in law and how the, barriers etc. we are very impressed about your accomplishment of being the first female African American Justice and would like you to come share how adding the diversity of African American judges has helped provide a different aspect on how rulings are handled and if there were any African American judges or lawyers that influenced you to venture down this career path. I spoke to Leslie today about your availability to

A group that has been oppressed for a long period of time is African Americans. They dealt with so much from history to present that I feel they should benefit from community organizing. Especially with recent events that’s going on with them as a population, they could benefit from it.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”(Rev Martin Luther King, Jr). No one should be treated differently no matter the color of one's skin. Have you ever wondered why african americans face more injusticeness when arrested then any other race? When african americans are arrested they are almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police and are more likely to serve higher sentences than white americans for the same offense. There was “robustus evidence” found that “black male federal defendants were given longer sentences than comparable whites”. Black men's sentences were on average, ten percent longer than those of their white

African Americans received unequal treatment in Mississippi of 1964. Some had to pick cotton rather than go to school even if they wanted. They got told, “They don’t need to be in school anyway, they need to be in the field.” The straw boss would even say that the kids where too big to be in school. When they rode to school on the bus, they were forced to sit in the back. They weren’t able to sit in the front of the bus like whites could. At school they weren’t allowed to drink out of the same water fountain as whites were. Women got treated badly, they were raped by older men that took advantaged of them. Although, their parents couldn’t say anything about the situation or they would even get killed over it. African Americans also didn’t receive

Did you know, every 28 hours an African American is killed by a police officer or security guards? If not, have you seen the popular trend #blacklivesmatters on sociable media? This is truly unfair to them because the police officers are not treating them inclination other relations of different breed. Police official do not parley African Americans equally inasmuch as of policies that aim African Americans, increased count of black deaths object by to inhumanity, the number of somber vs. pure apprehend.

When the Africans arrived in the Americas, the majority of them worked on plantations. Men, women, and even children worked. Women mostly worked as servants, nurses, dressmakers, and cookers. Whereas men worked as metalworkers, watch smiths, and etc. Africans who worked on plantations can only leave the field at a certain time, depending on the season of the crop. Africans created environment and wealth for their owner and their families. They also faced brutal oppression and they had no freedom whatsoever. Women were often abused and raped by their owner, which resulted in a mixed-race population. Some of the mixed race were free to a certain extent, whereas other had to buy their freedom.

For example blacks were not allowed and use the same restrooms as whites; they weren't even allowed to use the same drinking fountain. Before 1994 discrimination was legal; the blacks and whites were segregated by law. Then all the sudden the supreme court changed their minds. Then nine kids volunteered at a school assembly to to go to an all white school; Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta LaNier, Minnijean Brown, and Melba Beals. They were nicknamed the Little Rock Nine. On September 4, 1957 those same nine kids tried to enter an all white school with police protection, but the governor called the National Guard to make sure

The United States has a long history of racial injustices. Today, this can be seen manifested in our drug laws and policies. The war on drugs, otherwise known as the United States drug polices, systematically targets minorities and their communities. The war on drugs has caused a huge disparity between race, gender and sentencing. According to Gunja (2003), white people outnumber black people five to one in the United States, and they both use and sell drugs at similar rates. However, in seven states, 80%-90% of prisoners serving for drug related charges are black Gunja, F. (2003). These disparities are caused by “mandatory minimums” were sentencing for the same drug, but in different forms are much different. According to Women and Gender

Blacks in the South were subjected to many forms of racial injustice in different ways. Most were restricted to jobs providing barely enough money to maintain their households, little or no education; and many farmers and sharecroppers were not permitted to produce enough to make a decent living. The Moody family constantly moved from shack to shack, all of which lacked plumbing and/or electricity. They barely survived on a diet of bread and beans and occasionally received table scraps from the White families of whom they were employed. In addition to the scarcity of food, violence was also very prevalent. The incitement for beatings and murders inflicted upon African Americans often stemmed from Whites wanting to terrorize Blacks or to punish them for doing something that goes against the segregationist, and illegal, ideals of the South. Law enforcement did nothing to prevent these hate crimes and even at time participated in them.

Through the course of our lifespan we have been taught about the issues of racism in the United States, however, most of the issues are usually associated with the south and the discrimination that African Americans faced. In reality, discrimination occurred nationwide and it followed every person of color during the late 19th and 20th century. Even if laws were implemented that stated that those who are citizens shall have their rights protected that was not the case for people of color. As we will see, blacks were not the only ones that were targeted. With the increase of mass migration into the United States minority groups such as Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and other minority groups were targeted. Racism in the United States lead to a creation of division among the color and the white and laws were created to support this separation.

In Nelson Mandela 1993 Nobel Peace Prize speech, Mandela tells about the cruel things that South Africans go through because of apartheid and why he is celebrating the end of it. Throughout his speech Mandela goes over the topic that apartheid is a real thing and African Americans are being treated unfairly and unequal for no reason.It is very clear that Mandela focuses on spreading awareness about ending the segregation that is going on in South Africa. He expresses why he and many other South Africans feel that apartheid needs to be ended and what the efforts were of him and others to end it. Mandela notes that he stands as a representative of the millions of people who feel the way that he does, this shows how strong people feel towards

I think talking about race and racial injustice about the past or present will bring awareness because if we discuss about the issue than we would be able to fix many discrimination problems. I agree that we cannot change the past but we can focus on present and future generations. Issue should be fixed by coming together with a solution to the problems rather than just listening to people point of views. I have seen racism at workplace, and in school. Racism still exists and has not erased completely because some people still trend to judge based on how they look and where they came from? The Conversation is necessary to promote the change. We as an individual can change this issue by treating each other with respect, no matter which country

Although racism has improved a lot since the 1600s, America still has some progress to make. Racial discrimination is the hatred of one person by another—or the belief that another person is less than human—because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor (adl.org). Americans try to overlook the inequalities of the world and pretend that racism does not exist anymore, only it very much does.