Compare And Contrast Hillary Clinton And Trump

Both Republicans and Democrats have unequivocal pockets of political support. When running for office, votes come from various sectors of

Obama emphasizes the black community a lot more than any other community, along with, his speech was written after his former Reverend made racist comments. I, probably along with many others, may have taken this speech as a way for him not to look bad in the public eye.

The United States features a prison population that is more than quadruple the highest prison population in Western Europe (Pettit, 2004). In the 1980s, U.S. legislation issued a number of new drug laws with stiffer penalties that ranged from drug possession to drug trafficking. Many of those charged with drug crimes saw longer prison sentences and less judicial leniency when facing trial. The War on Drugs has furthered the boom in prison population even though violent crime has continued to decrease steadily. Many urban areas in the U.S. have a majority black population. With crime tendencies high in these areas, drugs are also prevalent. This means that a greater percentage of those in prison are going to be black because law

Racial inequality is growing. Our criminal laws, while facially neutral, are enforced in a manner that is massively and pervasively biased. My research will examine the U.S. criminal justice policies and how it has the most adverse effect on minorities. According to the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, out of a total population of 1,976,019 incarcerated in adult facilities, 1,239,946 or 63 percent are

The election of Barack Obama as the 56th president of the United States raised many hopes that the “Black struggles” was finally over. For conservatives, Obama victory reassured their beliefs that there was no longer such thing as racism and that every American had equal rights and opportunity to pursue the American dream. While many people have come to believe that all races have equal rights in America, Tim Wise argues in his documentary “White Like Me” that not only does racism and unconscious racial bias still exist, but that also White Americans are unable to simply relate to the variety of forms racism and inequality Blacks experience. This is mainly because of the privileges they get as the “default.” While Wise explores the variety forms of racism and inequality today such as unconscious racism, Black poverty, unemployment, inadequate education system, and prison system, the articles by the New York Times Editorial Board, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Adam Liptak further explore some the disparities in the criminal justice system. Ana Swanson points out in her article, “The Stubborn Persistence of Black-White Inequality, 50 Years after Selma” that while the “U.S. has made big strides towards equal rights,” significant gaps still remains between the two races. With the Supreme Court striking down a “portion of the Voting Rights Act that stopped discriminatory voting laws from going into effect in areas of the country with histories of disenfranchisement,” civil

The disproportionate numbers of African Americans in the prison system is a very serious issue, which is not usually discussed in its totality. However, it is quite important to address the matter because it ultimately will have an effect on African Americans as a whole.

Ronald Reagan really was a god awful President. He preyed on the unfounded fears of white people in a way that politicians have really perfected since his time in office. George H.W. Bush did the same thing, as can be seen in his political ads from when he was running for President. Bill Clinton took the relay baton and kept on running. It’s Hillary Clinton that used the phrase “super-predator” in her speech as she praised the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that Bill Clinton had signed into law. While she has since expressed regret for using that phrase, I do think that it did a lot of harm (Gearan and Phillip). No one hears the

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.

Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29th, 2005. The events that followed would leave the whole nation in shock until this day. One of the major topics of discussion after this disaster was whether or not the government's slow reaction time had anything to do with the fact that New Orleans is sixty-seven percent African American. As helicopters circled a wasteland that was once a major tourist attraction, the racism of the Deep South, thought to be extinct, proved it was only dormant. The same racism against African Americans that could be seen on Bourbon Street in the months prior to the hurricane reared its ugly head once more in Gretna, LA and was pointed out on live television by rapper Kanye West.

Hill argued that the unhappiness of African American in prison was due to their long; and extensive prison sentence is a prime example of the corrupted law system. Criminals, as a result of this policy were mistreated as African Americans. They were treating them as slaves to these prisons, exploiting the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This society has always been about, exploiting the 13th Amendment and enslave African Americans once again. Since they could not actually put African Americans jail, they exploited the 13th Amendment and sentenced African Americans to long term sentences for petty crimes. In society, African Americans are poorer to society; society does not want to see African Americans to grow and achieve success in America. The only way for society to keep African Americans from achieving greatness is by imprisoning us so that they can still have us as slaves, but slave to the prison system. By the court system having laws set against us, it its discrimination because a black person can do the same crime as a white person and the black person will receive more time.

2256492 The Donald vs Clinton The next presidential election is coming up and the two front runners for each party which currently are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton I personally wouldn’t vote for any of them, but for the sake to make our country great again it would take someone with much more experience. Many people want to vote for these people for the wrong reasons. Both of them are very different which is obvious because we have a bipartisan of democratic and republican. Both of them have good ideas and policies, but it all depends on what you agree with.

But as an African-American man, he sympathises with black voters who feel this election is really about race and class.

“The people who commit terror against innocents do it for the same purpose. Some people say well they do it to prove a political point. Then why go after little girls or innocent people standing at a bus stop in Britain or in Madrid?” (Couric, n.d.). She also sees elements of the racism she experienced as a child persisting in the views some people hold toward other cultures and their ability to handle democracy. After pointing out that the segregation she experienced growing up in the South was rooted in the supposed inferiority of one race to the other and left her feeling consistently underestimated, she goes on to say, “When I look around the world and I hear people say, ‘Well, you know, they`re just not ready for democracy,’ it really does resonate or I hear echoes of, well, you know, ‘Blacks are kind of childlike. They really can`t handle the vote. Or they really can`t take care of themselves,’ it really does roil me. It makes me so angry because I think there are those echoes of what people once thought about black Americans” (Couric, n.d.). The experiences in Condoleezza’s youth affected her perception in such a way that it permitted her to construct a world view in which she can easily identify with the minority or the oppressed. Her previous experiences gave her a strong

The Sentencing Project from 1991, showed that one fourth of young African Americans men were under the control of the criminal justice system

When voting to elect a new president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer, we should be self-conscious of who is the right person to vote for. Our country is divided by Republicans and Democrats, which at the end both contribute to do their best for our country. I have to admit neither of the candidates were my favorite Election of 2016, but when it comes to voting you have to lean towards the one who would best improve our country. And at the end it’s not whether you’ve been republican your whole life that you don’t want to vote democrat or vice versa, but instead who can take that role and make the best out of it while being president.