Black Men Should Not Be A Non Perfect Society

Did you know that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to die than white men? Racism is as old as human society itself. As long as human beings have been around, people have always seemed to have hated or feared people with a different skin color. Racism is just a part of the human nature. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was just 17 when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Sanford, Florida on February 2012. The murder of Trayvon Martin affected many people. The death of Martin was just the first of several deaths where a white person killed a black innocent person. Since the deaths weren’t stopping the #BlackLivesMatter movement began.

According to the CNN article titled “Poll: 1 in 5 blacks report 'unfair' dealings with police in the last month,” African-Americans were experiencing unfair police treatment due to their racial standards in their community. “Terms such as ‘driving while black’ and ‘walking while black’ have been coined, with studies showing that blacks are pulled over, questioned or arrested by police at a disproportionately higher rate than white Americans” (Poll: 1 in 5 blacks report 'unfair' dealings with police in the last month n. p.). Presumably, since African-Americans are people of color they are often treated unfairly in their communities, especially by white policemen because they can be racist towards them. Policemen will often end up focusing on their racial standards, and what the color of their skin is instead of what they act like as an individual, and how they treat others in their community. Moreover, in the film, Prom Night in Mississippi, African-American high school students were treated unfairly by white high school students, and also by other white people in their community. They were doing this because they too were only focusing on the fact that they are African-Americans, and how they did not see them as equal individuals within their community. For example, when the high school had two separate proms, one only for the white high school students, and

One of the the most controversial topics of discussion in our nation is the Black Lives Matter movement. This movement has sparked up immensely because of the President in office right now, Donald Trump, and many events transpiring around the nation. The country is at separation between the people who think that Black Lives Matter is a real issue and the people who think it is not. Without a doubt, people need to be considered equally, no matter what is said at the end of the day. America was founded on the idea that every man that walks on the soil will have just as equal opportunities as the next, no matter the race. Three essential reasons people are determined to fight for this cause is to end job discrimination, stop police brutality, and gain equal rights within society.

For decades black Americans have been treated as animals, looked at as if they are monsters, and killed like bugs. Actions like Police brutality and racism is what caused Black Lives Matter. The creation of the Black Lives Matter was a response by the black community to give a voice to black Americans affected by the increase of wrongful deaths due to the law enforcements and vigilantes across the country. This has been going on for so long that it seems like we are stuck in the past. For years, even decades black Americans have had to live the struggle of being equal. Even when things are going good and we think we finally have the same rights, something happened to change that. It is time to shed a light on the real purpose of Black Lives Matter and why they are important to today's society.

There are more than two million people incarcerated in the U.S, whether it is in jails, prisons, or immigration detentions and the race with the highest percentage of imprisoned people are blacks. For many years, black men have always been at top of the list for going to prison during their lifetime. Following black men would be the Latino males, than white males, and so forth. Minorities are usually arrested more than whites. This is because they get off way easier with police officers and the law. Blacks have it the hardest where they get pulled over for any and everything. Most of the time they get killed for doing absolutely nothing wrong. Everyone is supposed to be treated fair, but police officers have their own motto for that. “Once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted; and once convicted, they are more likely to face stiff sentences.” (Knafo, 2014). Police find anything to arrest people for, especially blacks, just to be able

"We simply cannot say we live in a country that offers equal justice to all Americans when racial disparities plague the system by which our society imposes the ultimate punishment." (Senator Russ Feingold, 2003). It has been proven that death sentencing across the USA is determined by the race of the victim and race of the defendant. In 1990, there was a report from the General Accounting office which concluded that those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks. (Focus, 2003) This injustice amongst us are because people are scared and don’t know. They don’t know whether a black man is pulling out a gun, their phone, wallet, etc. So just to remain safe, they retaliate by killing our men. Society has grown to function on the fear of black men. Capitalism and the imprisonment of black people have become profitable. They’ve made a big business to just imprison black men. Black men are inheritably a threat to the capitalist structure of America, it protects their money, their politics, and their society.

In both the past and modern times, black people in America have been in danger from our society, but not all agree upon the proper response to this danger. It is obvious that black people in America have faced racial discrimination from both authorities and regular people in the past, but this danger continues into the present. Although it is agreed that this danger exists and needs a response, not all black men agree upon the actions that should be taken in this response.

One can say that we live in a country that under the constitution states that there is justice for all citizens, we are all granted equal protection under the law, and we have equality for all; but yet people are still fighting for equality. Blacks are being victimized by the system that causes them to be treated unfairly by the police which leads then to dealing with discriminatory sentencings for small crimes, and they would forever live in this vicious cycle that was created to put Blacks away. There are many laws, policies, and legislations that are set in place to keep certain groups of people oppressed without even openly stating which group of people would be oppressed. Race and crime, as two significant social phenomena, are

In terms of your first point, I do agree that there should be action on black on black crime, but the difference between the Blacklivesmatter movement/ police brutality and black on black crimes is that the police officers are are not convicted/ go to jail whereas black civilians who commit these crimes do. This isn't a jab against you or anything but it really pisses me off when i see that people are using black vs black crimes as an argument to invalidate the black lives matter

It was also not common for blacks to speak forth in court against whites in fear of their lives. There are certainly a lot of facts and statistics presented that shows the U.S is deeply an unequal society, and whites enjoy a number of societal advantages over blacks. One does not need to be convinced this is true. America has an institutionalized racism problem, but that it's different than it used to be than in during the era of Emmett Till’s incident. It's not a matter of laws or rules or structures that are built against minorities, rather it’s those unitizing their power in ways that is guided by their racial bias. This is much harder to deal with, much harder to prove as racism as opposed to other factors. There seems to be a strong racial bias in capital punishment and a moderate racial bias in sentence length and decision to jail. There is uncertainty over the magnitude of racial bias, depending on whose studies you want to believe and how precise you define racial

As protestors storm the streets, they call for equality and condemn racism, which they feel is too present in todays’ society. California is one of the most diverse states in the United States, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and Mexico. There, the Latino, black, and white populations are almost equal. Growing up in Los Angeles, I became used to being around people who celebrated different holidays, who ate different things, and dressed differently. Additionally, I’m half black and half white, so as I grew up I never saw one race over another. The riots and disputes between police and the public are largely race fueled, as many blacks feel that they are being targeted. The words “Black Lives Matter” have covered social media and other media outlets, calling for equality, which many blacks feel are being withheld from them. While blacks have gained a lot of ground since the times of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, in todays world I have no doubt that there is still

Suspicion that a black person will always have the wrong intention and have a malicious plan when walking around a neighborhood, or whatever the case might be, is unjust and based on prejudice. As more of our black sisters and black brother’s lives are being taken away, the public begins to take this issue more seriously attemting to prevent from any more lives to be taken away by the police force, which is meant to keep us out of harm’s way and make us feel safe. Black lives matter is no longer maintained as a popular hashtag in the media, but it comes to live as a movement. Police brutality creates a black lives matter movement where our society unites to protest, regardless of economic status, religion, race, or sex.

What they are really saying, however, is that this incident was the biggest racial dispute that has happened, involving cops, since Rodney King’s beating, and now it is time to take action. The Trayvon Martin case is a prime example of how the groups, like Blacklivesmatter.com, automatically deduce that a crime involving a black teenager’s murder directs toward the entire black community at large. The incident was, indeed, tragic and the defendant, George Zimmerman, was definitely let off too easily. Even if it were proven that Zimmerman actually killed Martin because he was black, that still does not mean any other person would have done the same thing. One person’s actions do not define a

Elijah Robert Poole was born on October 7,1897 in Sandersville Georgia. He was the sixth of thirteen children born to William Poole Sr and Mariah Poole. He is famous for being an African American religious leader and the leader of the Nation Of Islaem from 1934 until he died in 1975. He ended his education in the fourth grade to help his family by working as a sharecropper until he left home at age 16 to work in factories. On March 17, 1917 he married Clara evans and like many blacks at the time migrated for the jim crow south to Hamtramack Michigan for better job opportunities. While living in Michigan Poole and his wife had 8 children. In 1931 Poole attended his first speech on Islam and black empowerment by Wallace D Fard. Afterwards

There is a reason why blacks are quicker to be arrested then whites, or why white neighborhoods look nicer then black neighborhoods, or why blacks are accused of crimes more than whites. Most people will think it is the way of the world. Racial discrimination will always exist in America. It doesn’t need to be this way. Our government does not care enough about the black people and it clearly shown. There should be a law against police just arresting blacks for no reason. They should have their neighborhoods fixed up too. It shouldn’t be legal to just be able to accuse a black person of a crime because he happened to be standing there. There are so many more examples of this and it just shows how are government thinks impartially too and doesn’t believe the black people are important or worth their time. Richard Hughes was very bothered by this and he did a study with his students to show them how blacks are treated unfairly. They analyzed crimes and arrests of black people in the past few months. The looked at how much less money the government puts into black housing then whites. “The sources include historical and recent statistics on race, wealth, and housing; a 1937 photograph by Margaret Bourke-White juxtaposing African American flood victims and a billboard proclaiming, “There’s No Way Like the American Way” (Hughes139). The students after doing this all got the point and all felt the same way as the teacher. “a broader sense of racial discrimination,” one student wrote, “Even after their emancipation after the Civil War, African Americans have faced many forces preventing them from living the „American Dream‟ (139). He felt the importance of his students going into the world after school, understanding this and maybe trying to get the government to handle this issue.