African American Injustices

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.

The United States’ treatment of African Americans has changed tremendously since the country’s founding up until now. African Americans were first introduced to the country in one of the harshest manners possible. They were brought over on tightly compacted slave ships and then forced into hard labor for the entirety of their lives. This went on for centuries until African Americans were finally given their freedom after the Civil War. Albeit this was much better than slavery, citizenship came with many troubles of its own. The years following the Civil War, known as the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, would prove to be, aside from slavery, some of the hardest times for African Americans in all of U.S. history.

In America, people used to deal with racism daily in The Jim Crow South, the era of ‘Separate but equal.’ In the South, many people of African-American descent experienced racism seen never before. Since the 1960’s, Americans have tried, and tried again to fight for the rights of people, but it never seems like enough. People have long debated, and are still debating, about the issue of Jim Crow, and whether it still lives on today. The effects of The Jim Crow South today still negatively affecting African-Americans today in the south.

Laws which are made to guarantee natural rights, including the right to life and liberty, communicate that justice does exist as those laws are applied to all cases that are within the rule. Despite the African American slaves having been freed after the Civil War in 1965, they were still treated with prejudice and segregated against. To remedy the injustice African Americans were facing, despite being considered American citizens, the Supreme Court in 1954 had decided that segregation was unconstitutional. However, the decision was made to rectify the segregation that African American students faced in public schools. King, therefore, advocates the breaking of such laws, which he distinguishes as unjust, by stating “one has a moral

African Americans were always thought to be inferior to the white supremacy in the United States. Although the Civil War had abolished slavery, blacks were still very ill-treated. Blacks were to not associate with the white society. They were banned from restaurants, bathrooms, parks, schools, hospitals, and much more. Whites constantly abused the blacks to the point that African American life expectancy was 7 years less compared to the whites (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/). Society believed that a black could cause something to lose value for example “property values would drop a great deal if an African American family moved into a neighborhood that was not considered a ghetto”. African Americans began to stand up against the racial

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

In addition, they were not allowed to have industries, modern facilities, transportation, or access to a portion of land that would be suitable for their population. Similarly, African Americans were oppressed and inferior to white Americans. They were not given access to the same education, transportation, or jobs. African Americans were entirely treated as inferior and were not granted constitutional rights that other Americans had access to.

Strong. Determined. Beautiful. These are words that have been used to describe a race that through trial and tribulation has never faltered in their struggle for justice in an unjust world. African Americans ' fight for liberation in the early to mid-1900s has paid off in many ways, but it is their tenacious efforts in acquiring equality that has given them such acclamation. While it is clear that America’s history of African American oppression is explicitly cruel and barbaric, I argue that the aftermath of such a grim past has helped to affirm a culturally rich, strong, and resilient race. Through abuse, prejudice, and death, African Americans have remained strong by becoming united in times of duress, never losing hope in a better future, and remaining persistent in their efforts to change their social inequality.

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.

After the abolishment of Slavery, the perception of African Americans was always used in a derogatory way for many White Americans. Instead of embracing equality for all human beings it became a case of dividing a nation and devaluing one's racial identity. The African American community was more neglected than every after slavery. Many white American kept marginalizing African American in order to keep power and outline who is superior to what group. The African American community was plagued with exploitation in order to deny them the ability to have power. In addition, plagued them as having characteristics of being deviance, in which portrayed them as being criminals.

Before the year 1857, African Americans were treated disrespectfully because of their color. Things we overlook now were almost impossible for African Americans to do. They

Our country has a grim past marked by racial turmoil and segregation. Since the founding of this country, there has been some form of racial injustice. For example, the enslavement of Africans until 1860, the segregation of colored citizens until the rise of MLK and Malcolm X, or the racial profiling and innocent killing of young black men and women in modern times. All these examples show just how unjust and discriminated America really is.

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Throughout history there has been many forms of injustices put on various groups of people, in particular, race. Early in the 16th and 17th century, oppression against blacks began in the form of slavery. The white man conquered land and owned people. Today, the same injustices still persists, but in a different view.

“Four million were freed from slavery by the amendment, but as long as they broke whatever laws (vagrancy, loitering, etc.) that remained on the books for decades and decades, they could be branded as criminals” (DuVernay).