Arguments Against Black Voters

There have been 100,000 African Americans in prison since Brown vs Board of education. The article states that the trend will continue, 1 of every 3 African American males are apparently born today can expect to go to prison in their time, 1 in 6 Latino males, compared to 1 in every 17 White males. But for women, it is much lower, but the ethnicity does not change: 1 out of 18 African Americans, 1 out of 45 Hispanics, and finally 1 of every 111 White females, are expected to serve some time in prison. At any given day, 1 in every 13 African American males between 30 to 39 will incarcerated in a state or federal prison on any given day. This compares to the demographics of the group because in communities of color they are not affected only by incarceration but by high

American has a legacy of the mistreatment and disenfranchisement of African Americans. The same bad treatment that many think only took place in the past is in fact still intact, it’s just presented in a new way. The mass incarceration of blacks in the Unites States can be attributed to the “racial hierarchy” that has always existed. The U.S contributes to about 5% of the worlds overall population, and about 25% of the worlds prison population (Holland 1), “if those rates reflected jail, probation and parole populations, the numbers would rise exponentially”(Griffith 9). Statics show that there is a chance that about 1 in 3 black males are expected end up in prison (Jacobson). Although, in terms of the entire United States population African Americans only make up about 13% (Prison Activist Resource Center. Racism Fact Sheets: “ Latinos and the Criminal Injustice System.” 2003). There is a huge number of African Americans involved in the criminal justice system in some way. The average person does not know about mass incarceration nor about the racism that is in just about every part of the criminal justice system. When most people think about racism their thoughts often drift to slavery or Jim Crow laws, but for most, they do not consider how the amount of African Americans in prison today could be due to bias or racism. A significant cause of mass incarceration is the same racism that produced the Jim Crow era.

In 1954, at the time of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision, African Americans constituted about 30% of persons admitted to state and federal prisons. That figure should have been disturbing since it was substantially higher than the black share of the national population. But that proportion has now increased; still more dramatically, to the point where blacks represent half of all prison admissions. This development would seem to be rather odd considering the changes that have taken place in American society over the past half-century. (Mauer & Huling, 1995)

population, they account for 29% of arrests, 38% of prisoners in state and federal facilities, 42% of death penalty cases, and 37% of executions (Crutchfield, D. Robert & Fernandes,April & Martinez, Jorge 2010). The “land of the free” is home to mass incarceration and 2,306,200 million prisoners in the world. The system did not become broken overtime but rather it was built that way from the very beginning. The minorities mainly the African Americans have always been victims of oppression throughout history beginning with slavery and it continued to happen in our own constitution. Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. worked very hard to have white individuals understand that blacks were just as human as they were and they deserved to have rights as well as other Americans as it said in our own constitution, but to have voiced such leadership in the black community was frowned upon and needed to be shut down very quickly. This topic of discussion can be argued on either side of the spectrum but we all know deep down the injustice that there is in our criminal justice system. “History is not stuff that happens by accident, we are the products of the history our ancestors choose, if we were white. If we are black we are products of the history that our ancestors did not choose for us” (Averick, Spence & Barish, Howard & DuVernay, Ava,

Inequality between races in the U.S. seems like a distant, long forgotten thing of the past. However, the gaps between the varied races in the U.S. are just as real as they were before. Asians are perceived as smart hard-workers with cruel parents, hispanics are identified as lazy illegal immigrants, whites are portrayed as dumb party-goers, and blacks are discerned as scary and evil thugs. The ways these races are viewed is extremely harmful to the way they are treated by society. These people tend to be treated badly starting at a young age, making the stereotypes they are accosted with harder to overcome. Stereotypes are taken to schools and jobs, causing imbalances almost everywhere, but the most damaging stereotypes are given to blacks, as they are treated like criminals

Within the US justice system, there is a substantial disparity between the aggregate number of African American men living within the society, and living inside prison walls. African Americans men are frequently confronted with difficult environmental, financial and sociological disparities growing up, and also have the absence of opportunity weighing them down as well. Many of these factors have lead to outrageous numbers of African American males being incarcerated. Furthermore, the prejudicial behaviors by the judicial community can also be included as a factor in these incarceration statistics. Digging deeper, it is clear that crime and punishment are multidimensional issues that stem from racial prejudice that originate from racial partiality legitimized by age-old observations and convictions about African Americans. The United States has an affective double justice system that has kept up the monetary and social chain of command in America, in light of the oppression of blacks, inside the United States. Public policy, criminal justice, society and the media, and criminal conduct have every single assumed part in making and keeping this stigma alive. According to National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African Americans contain about 1 million of the 2.3 million imprisoned populace. (NAACP, Criminal Justice Fact Sheet) Furthermore, the history of prejudice, which is additionally connected to the historical backdrop of view of race and crime, has

Forty-nine percent of African-American males will serve some time in prison. This translates to lost time with families, friends and loved ones and causes many of the issues we see in education and monetary means. The negative effects of not having a good education and few job opportunities encourages a lifestyle contradictory to what the law states. Today, African-Americans make up 37 percent of prison inmates, 42 percent of Death-Row inmates, and 45 percent of drug offenders in prison (Norris 94-95). Blacks are also not equally represented at an early age as two-fifths of incarcerated youths are African-Americans (Kerby). In a study done in 2009 by Heather West, black males are 6 times more likely to be in a federal prison than white males (2). Unfair punishment for blacks is the area farthest from equality; the most racial segregation occurs in this category.

In order to prevent African Americans from voting, white’s enacted a variety of different measures used for preventing black voting. Of these measures three big ones were the use of violence, all white-primary elections, and the grandfather clause. For whites violence was a means in which they could forcibly prevent African Americans from voting in town elections. Many times blacks that tried to vote, received some kind of violent backlash, whether it was getting beat or losing their jobs. In 1898, Democrats from Grimes County, following their loss organized a secret brotherhood, in which they eventually in cold blood shot two black leaders (Henretta, pg. 609).

According to the NAACP, one in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001 and studies show that if current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime (NAACP). Not only are African Americans being convicted more frequently but they receive harsher sentences for the same crimes. These unequal sentences and convictions are an issue because everyone should be entitled to the same level of justice. This injustice is hurting not only the people being sentenced but is affecting society as a whole.

According to the Pew Research Center, African-American male's incarceration is predominantly concentrated among Black males aged between 20 and 34. A number of factors contribute to this alarming statistics. While focusing on incarceration, studies demonstrate that the population in national prisons has increased by more than 600% from 1970s (Robinson, 2009). This is a significantly large number compared to the 40% increase in the national population during the same period. Before the 70s, the judicial systems in America were viewed as the most liberal, progressive, and humane. In the 1980s, federal and state governments launched new correctional centers to support the inflow of prisoners (United States Department of Labor, Office of Policy Planning and Research, 1965). Across these correctional facilities, societal, cultural, and economic inequalities were the leading contributors of Black males' incarceration rates. This study examines the factors that led to this high incarceration rate among African-American males.

The history of America is one that can’t be discussed without talking about the Negro. Whether we want to admit it or not, the Negro has played an integral part in making what America what it is today. If it wasn’t for the profits generated from slavery, there would have been no way that America would have been the country that it is today. The slavery that the Negro endured has produced some positive and negatives, but it is the negatives that have been something that the Negro hasn’t been able to overcome for hundreds of years. It is these same negatives that have compelled some of the greatest black minds in history to create solutions to these problems. Minds such as Crummell, W.E.B Du Bois are some of the minds that have come up with

The first fact that proves how the justice system has failed is the fact that more African Americans are sentenced to longer time in jail compared to Caucasians. According to an article on The Wall Street Journal webpage, “Between December 2007 and September 2011, the most recent period covered in the report, sentences of black males were 19.5% longer than those for whites” (Journalist Resource). This reveals that the US justice system has truly failed and shows that African Americans are imprisoned for longer times than Whites with the same crime. Other facts are the sentences of between African Americans and Caucasian in the late nineteen hundreds, “conducted in Georgia back in the 1980s, found that more than 20 percent of

Reverting to a previous statement, it’s necessary to spend the final portion of the paper discussing the resilience, perseverance, and the determination for racial equality that African-Americans have displayed since their initial bondage in 1619, and how a Centralist Party could aid and advance progress of the movement for racial equality. Unequivocally, the majority of Caucasians suppressed and oppressed any and all attempts from breaking the bonds of slavery from the 17th to 19th centuries, resisted attempts for decent treatment throughout the 1900s, and condemned strides for total equality as of the last fifty years, a feat still unaccomplished in the 21st century. Martin Luther King Jr. stated the underlying problem with black inferior

While there has been some improvement in the United States, in spite of everything it remains to be a considerably ethnically separated country. In addition, the nation remains extremely segregated too. Crutchfield (2015) specifies that there is no shock that unfortunate individuals of color has been imprisoned excessively throughout the huge upsurge in incarceration which has been an occurrence nationwide ever since the 1980s. Several of the vicissitudes throughout this phase of enlarged imprisonment that underprivileged individuals of color in the criminal justice system were put into action with the assistance and provision of African American governmental leadership, thru the rapid persistence of defending black and brown societies.

Culminating a long, arduous journey with the victorious election of an African American as President of the United States, Black people finally felt as if they had finally reached “the promised land.” Historically a marvelous achievement, considering the years of genocide, oppression, discrimination, and institutional and social racism, the election of Barack Obama in November, 2008 was a milestone that gave African Americans a pinnacle of pride. Frederick Harris gives critical analysis in his book, The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics, about the lack of initiatives specifically targeted to address and either eliminate or improve problems besetting the Black community. In his summation of the book Harris proposes, “black voters put aside policy demand for the prize of electing one of their own to the White House.” (p. 169). Black voters and leaders within the community overwhelmingly supported the President, and the symbolism of having one