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I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

With so many news stories and incidents surrounding the topic of race and the police these days, it is not surprising for people to come to the conclusion that racism may exist within the criminal justice system. We will be taking a deeper look into the problem to find out what other possible determinants may play a role in deciding how an officer makes an arrest or stop and continue to analyze what is happening in those contexts. The issues surrounding the topic of race is like the two faces of the same coin as there are usually two sides that we have to consider: reality and media portrayals. The reality side of situations is always there at the time, but it is so subtly hidden from society that nobody understands it unless they witness it firsthand and with the media spreading filtered information, it becomes even harder for us to identify the key issue; this is especially the case when dealing with the police and racial profiling. If you turn on the news and flip to a channel where it is reporting on the police and their arrests, you will most likely see more arrests pertaining to minorities than other ethnicities. In the news, we can often see a misrepresentation of ethnic minorities, usually African-Americans, being arrested when compared to others and this has caused problems around societies countless times. For this essay topic, I will be discussing the different issues surrounding race within the parameters of criminal justice and inequality; furthermore I will be

Throughout history, there have been many cases of discriminatory accusations of people, including the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a string of trials, hearings and prosecutions of many people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts between the dates of February 1692 and May 1693. The trials ended up leading to the execution of twenty people, men and women, but mainly women. The Salem Witch Trials that took place about three hundred years ago affected the lives of everyday civilians during that time in ways such as politically, religiously, economically, fearfully, mentally, and sometimes in other various other ways.

In modern-day America the issue of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system is controversial because there is substantial evidence confirming both individual and systemic biases. While there is reason to believe that there are discriminatory elements at every step of the judicial process, this treatment will investigate and attempt to elucidate such elements in two of the most critical judicial junctures, criminal apprehension and prosecution.

​Undoubtedly, the world in which we live in today is more united in comparison to previous generations. Overall, however, its essential to continually focus upon how we as a society should continually embrace these ambitions in efforts to create equal opportunity to all. Although racial injustice in America has in fact been altered radically in comparison with earlier generations, the aspects of discrimination unfortunately remain. This is particularly true in regards to police brutality. Though the correlation between the infamously brute force law enforcement officials and race continually remains, the fact of the manner is that all races succumb to this type of violence. Throughout the following analysis, the infamous police injustice

This research paper will provide an overview of the topic of race within the criminal justice system. At first glance this paper seems to be a simple task, but there is much difficulty to study such a broad subject manner. There are numerous amounts of different perspectives from which a discussion on the decision of race within the system could develop. The term race has changed significantly over the course of human history. Early theories of race allocated many social, intellectual, moral, and physical values to the evident differences between groups of people. After the civil war, The Jim Crow laws were enacted all across the South and in the North (Klarman, 2004). From the 17th through early 20th centuries, the study of race was defined

Yes, this scenario is a reportable injury. It is a reportable injury because Karen Kite was outside of her jobsite when she slipped and fell.

Racism and the criminal justice system cannot be separated from each other. The migration of many people from different ethnic background and parts of the world to the United States (Gabbidon Greene, 2006) has led to racial influences, attitudes and inequality among people in this country. Racial discrimination has also pervaded in the criminal justice system of the country. Discourses of racism in the criminal justice system involve many different issues, such as those involving the sources of racism, its manifestations, and the solutions to the problem. Below are articles that discuss these various aspects of interaction between racism and the criminal justice system.

Since slavery, there has been a continuous trend of disparities among blacks and other races. These disparities prevent a significant amount of people from having a successful futures as many obstacles work against them. More specifically, there are racial disparities among races when it relates to discipline. According to statistics, 43% of blacks are punished with lifetime suspension compared to 1% of whites. These disciplining strategies increase the risk of more black students following the path to jail. The racial disparity within disciplination of students is a problem because many kids are going to prison as a result of issues that could easily be solved within the school system. Instead of seeking to look at the context of the problem, black students are being given to the system. As a result, deep rooted problems are being ignored and behavioral problems are perpetuated. The best solution for the problem is implementing intervention specialists because it will allow the students to have an advocate that seeks to understand their individual needs; they will have a role model to look up to. These specialists will also work alongside the teacher, bridging the misunderstanding between the two parties.

Do Americans feel like there is still racial discrimination in today's everyday life? Racial discrimination is treating someone differently because of the color of his or her skin. Racial discrimination has been around for a long time. There are laws that are supposed to protect non whites from being racially discriminated against but these laws are not applied to everyone equally. There are a lot of different types of discrimination such as gender and age but the main type is racial. Racial discrimination still exist in America based on discrimination at work, police brutality, and arrest rates.

Prejudice and racial discrimination has governed people who are of different race, religion, or ethnicity for hundreds of years, and is still a major issue all over the world. For example, in the Myanmar Rohingya Crisis, about 600,000 Rohingya Muslims had fled to Bangladesh after ethnic violence erupted in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State in late August.

In order for people of color to cope with discrimination, it must not be something that they are constantly up against. There is widespread of disparities between African-Americans and other minorities compared to whites. I think that the reason people of color cannot cope with discrimination is because of the blatant racial injustices in society today and the perception of these races that are portrayed in the media.

Is there racial discrimination in the United States criminal justice system? If so, how can we change this? Police brutality against minorities has specifically brought attention to this subject. Researchers have been studying racial prejudice in everyday life, police interactions with civilians, and in the courtroom.

Throughout history, people have immigrated to the United States for various reasons. Whether it is economically, politically, or socially; people of different races, traditions, religion, etc. are determined to start a life in America. Once immigrants settle they start to develop their own neighborhoods where they can unite and openly express one’s own culture, traditions, and customs but remain within the American restraints of what is acceptable. New York, in particular, began embracing this idea of ethnicity. From there, neighborhoods such as Western Heights and Harlem prospered. Though, with divided neighborhoods comes crime and gang warfare. In addition, dominance and control were sought between the different turfs (boundaries). Though integration was thought to reduce gang warfare, boundaries were established by neighborhoods which caused race related crimes and exclusion upon other ethnicities.

According to a poll done by news outlets 87% of black Americans say they face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but only 49% of white Americans agreed. Black Americans do face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but they are usually considered less compared to white Americans. The call to respond together peacefully to all forms of violence comes from leaders, such as Reverend Martin Luther King. As a young citizen, I want to promote peace by working together to stand up against bullying and people being targeted for their race, fixing problems caused because somebody didn’t like someone else’s race, and working together as a community to teach racist individuals why racism should be avoided and to see more than a one-sided story.