Essay On Ferguson Violence

“The African American community is not making this up. It’s not something that’s being politicized. It’s real”

In the year 1898 in the town of Wilmington, North Carolina a riot occurred between the African American inhabitants and the white minority of the city. Several historians accuse the origin of the riot on racism and white supremacy. Although these two beliefs have been around for countless years, and African Americans received the right to vote almost thirty years’ prior, no demonstration nor aggressive threats, to the point in which was seen in 1898, had occurred in Wilmington until that year. The Wilmington Race Riot was the reaction of the “sociopolitical conditions” that were being applied by the Democratic Party to win the election through a sequence of diabolical campaign tactics just like creating partial accusations about the “negroes” of the town thus, creating unconstitutional practices, and threatening their existence.

Ironically, “Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or, were armed or threatening the officer with potentially lethal force.” “Alternatively, some believe that these statistics are

Recently, an L.A. Times article (dated 2/13/00) reviewed a new book entitled "Without Sanctuary", a collection of photographs from lynchings throughout America. During the course of the article, the author, Benjamin Schwarz, outlined some very interesting and disturbing facts related to this gruesome act of violence: Between 1882 and 1930, more than 3,000 people were lynched in the U.S., with approximately 80% of them taking place in the South. Though most people think only African Americans were victims of lynchings, during those years, about 25% were white. Data indicates that mobs in the West lynched 447 whites and 38 blacks; in the Midwest there were 181 white victims and 79 black; and in the South, people lynched 291

Police shootings are unfortunate events but whenever there is a shooting, the topic of race emerges. Police shootings have always been the highlights on news channels and there is always the racially biased narrative that keeps repeating itself yet no one seems to dispute this narrative. However, did you know that studies show a police officer is eighteen and a half times more likely to be killed by a African American male than an unarmed African American male is to be killed by a police officer? In fact, a recent “deadly force” study by Washington State University researcher Lois James found that police officers were actually less likely to shoot an unarmed black suspect than unarmed Caucasian or Hispanic suspect in simulated threat scenarios. Some would argue that there are still police shootings all over America and they occur when police officers

During the nineteenth century, lynching was brought to America by British Isles and after the Civil War white Americans lynching African American increased. Causing and bringing fear into their world. In the Southern United States, lynching became a method used by the whites to terrorize the Blacks and to remain in control with white supremacy. The hatred and fear that was installed into the white people’s head had caused them to turn to the lynch law. The term lynching means to be put to death by hanging by a mob action without legal sanction. So many white people were supportive of lynching because it was a sign of power that the white people had. “Lynching of the black people was used frequently by white people, their is no specific detail of how many times they had done it, but lynching of black people has lasted from 1882 to 1968. Lynching also is in fact a inhuman combination of racism and sadism which was used to support the south’s caste system,’’(Gandhi).

Even though there women now have more choices to get an abortion done without having to do it illegally, they still face shaming from other people. People always blame the women for doing something wrong and they are always questioned. Women have the right to planned parenthood without being questioned. It their choice what they want to do. Recently, there was a shooting in Planned Parenthood health center in Colorado Springs which provides abortion services, contraception counseling and prescriptions.

In “Taking Sides in Ferguson” Noah C. Rothman elaborates on why the media was excessively involved throughout the riots in Ferguson. After the killing of Michael Brown in August of 2014, many angry citizens began protesting the unjust authorities as well as the judicial system. The media’s biased views were trying to mete the social justice system and authorities. This was used to correct many of the things done wrong during the racial past throughout America. The news media used the incidents in Ferguson to inflate their opinions by excessively throwing themselves into the action, along with Ferguson’s local authorities causing more violence throughout Ferguson. Many readers would agree that Rothman does well elaborating the media’s biased views; while also describing the media’s over-involvement with examples of other journalist’s, however, he contradicts his argument on whether or not the media or the authorities were instigating the violence.

This book review was on the book of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. It was a long-term study done by William M. Tuttle, Jr. Its objective was to make a comprehensive documentation of the events of 1919 in Chicago. The book dealt with all aspects and perspectives of the event. The author’s objective was to leave no stone uncovered. That every aspect would be talked about in detail. Some important aspects that he arose throughout the book are going to be the focal point of this book review.

Black people are mad at the behavior accepted from white cops in America. A non African American rookie may not have negative opinions of black people. However, a mixture of predisposition and training by older and more cynical officers seems to convince various officers that black Americans are criminals merely due to the color of skin and past experiences. To many officers are afraid of their jobs and trigger happy to defend themselves with the resources provided. At this point in time the blunt force against black people can be seen as an excuse to do us harm. No records compare to the amount of black victims victimized by police brutality. It would be different if blacks were given a chance

“The finding that young black men are twenty one times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police is drawn from reports filed for the years 2010 to 2012, the three most recent years for which FBU numbers are available (Deadly Force).” Looking at this report from ProPublica, lethal weapons have been used by police upon black men throughout the time, and the numbers have been increasing every upcoming years. Ferguson is one of the example about abusing police authority and power. There are stereotypes exists in our society that black men are more likely involve in crime, such as robbery, murder, rape and so forth; which leads to an conflict between different races or blacks and white. Ferguson, an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown has been killed by white police officer. Brown was a suspect in a robbery of local grocery store before the shooting. The police officer Darren Wilson was profoundly criticized for his action against the black male. After few months of investigation, a grand jury decided not to prosecute police officer for any unlawful charges in relation to the Mr. Brown’s death. After the jury decision, people were came out and protest against the police brutality and injustice in America. Especially, Ferguson has been seen as war zone because of huge military style policing as well as violent protester.

Police brutality against African Americans was a huge impact in Los Angeles, California in 1991, and continues to be a problematic situation in America today. On March 3, 1991, a group of white LAPD beat Rodney King. After this incident occurred a lot of negative events started to transpire. A lot of African Americans were angry and demanded justice. The relationship between the LAPD and the Los Angeles community in 1991 were horrific and still continues to be awful today. Police brutality just seems to be increasing more overtime, which means the increase in the community not trusting the police. Police brutality can be a huge disadvantage when it comes to community policing.

The Detroit riots occurred in the summer of 1967. The riot initially started because of race when poor African Americans got kicked out of their houses. They started living on 12th street in Detroit. The riot started there because African Americans were fed up with the way that they were being treated. Many years prior to the riot there were already racial issues. The government made it hard for African Americans to buy houses in the 1950s. During that time, white people were resisting African Americans from moving into Detroit. They were gathering outside of houses owned by African Americans until they would leave. According to Stanford, “I was blissfully unaware of the pervasive racism and resentment that was simmering in my city” (28).

White on black violence- then and now, it hasn’t changed much. White on black violence was a major issue during the era of the civil rights movement in the 60’s, as well as continues into today’s society. Since the 1950s and 1960s Violence has been heavily brutal on African American, in tell today violent crime, especially homicide, is a burden that falls heavily on African American, for example, the case of Emmett Till in the 1955 and the Shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. In addition to these murders, violence persisted through mass arrests, jail beatings, lynching, and church burning. Racial discrimination deprived Southern blacks of decent jobs and schools and of elementary rights of citizenship, including voting.

My wife and I used to live on our own house back down South, after I had come back from the war. My parents were both lynched, along with my kids for no exact reason. I planned to farm and make a living, but pro-business policies only continued to hurt agriculture. Other countries had now developed their own agriculture which had led to overproduction here in the United States. New, more efficient technology has only added to the overproduction of crops. This meant that there was more supply than demand leading to losses in profit for us farmers. I now have lost my farm and all my money because of the Stock Market Crash. My saved money was all stored in a back that had invested all their money into speculative stocks and in turn lost all my money in the crash. I