Gender Inequality In Iraq: Article Analysis

Even before watching the video, “Race on Trial” I believed that there was racial bias in the justice system and all this video did was reaffirm that. The fact that these two cases were so similar it is no surprise that the judge jumped to race as the only factor that separated their sentences. Even though there are federal sentencing guidelines put in place to prevent/reduce sentencing disparities it still occurs and many have done in depth research on it. In “The Relationship between Race, Ethnicity, and Sentencing Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Sentencing Research” they compared sentencing outcomes of African Americans to whites and saw that 66% of the sentencing outcomes that they studied showed that African Americans had a higher sentencing

The case also was racially important in the way the community accepted the verdict. Much of the white community saw the overwhelming amount of evidence against OJ and came to their conclusion that he was guilty. On the other hand, the Black community who was more than aware of racial prejudice by the police chose to protect their own. The two communities took the not guilty verdict in completely separate ways; the White community was outraged that who they saw as a murderer was set free, and the Black community was enthusiastic that the man they saw as innocent was not wrongly convicted. Another similarity between the situations is racist police.

In the video, it was apparent that there is a very lopsided number of minorities compared to whites in prison due to the provided fact that black men account for 40.2% of the prison population, while only contributing to 6.5% of the United States population. This percent is only one minority groups out of many more that are in prison still to this day. It was also provided in the video that one in every three African Americans are sent to prison once in their lifetime. This gives a basis of the argument that race could play a role in the deciding of sentences in court. As mention in the video, there is proof from cases that an African American have been shown to serve longer sentences than whites for the same crimes. In short, there is a lopsided number that has the background and statistics to show that there is a possibility that racism did play a role in the lopsided

During the trial, businesses put out jars to collect money for the defense of the two murderers. This shows that everyone was on the murderers side. The community views the white race as the superior race, and that is why the murderers were not guilty. Society then, was not a time that we should be proud of. Those murderers should have been

Thesis Statement: A few females are joining the military, and those taking leadership roles is even small, caused by existence of limited information about the Army and less combat roles, and this can be addressed by lifting ban on women on combat and creating more combat support jobs.

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

It was a landmark case that is historic till this day. A black man was imprisoned for not leaving a "white" only area. This case helped with the "seperate but equal" law. Although we have this law, not everybody treats other people as equal.

The Racial Justice Act of 2009 was a piece of legislature in North Carolina that barred the death penalty for offenders based on race. This act determined the kind of evidence that could be used by the court or if race played a part in jury selection. They would determine if the evidence presented was a factor of imposing the death penalty in a case based on a person’s race. This allowed the defendant to establish that race was an actual factor in deciding to seek or impose the death penalty. If it was determined that face played an important role in deciding the death penalty, the sentence would automatically be converted to life imprisonment for the defendant.

The racism in these cases all show an unfair balance between the colored skins and the whites. In some opinions, this judgement was very unjust. The United States regretted most of it history due to this. Three Supreme Court cases forced millions of people to understand how far society must go to overcome racism: Dredd Scott vs. Sanford, Loving vs. Virginia, and Brown vs. Board.

Many on each side of the issue cite the alleged physical and mental differences between males and females, the effect of the presence of the opposite sex on the battlefield, and the traditional view of male soldiers as arguments both for and against women being employed as soldiers under combat situations. Since very few countries employ a fully integrated military, there are few references available to prove or disprove the arguments. Although women are recruited to serve in the military in most countries, only a few countries permit women to fill active combat roles.

When it comes to combat assignments and the needs of the military, men take precedence over all other considerations, including career prospects of female service members. Female military members have been encouraged to pursue opportunities and career enhancement within the armed forces, which limit them only to the needs and good of the service due to women being not as “similarly situated” as their male counterparts when it comes to strength or aggressiveness, and are not able to handle combat situations.

Women have been participating in the United States military since the Revolutionary War, where they were nurses, maids, cooks and even spies. They played vital roles in order to keep those fighting on the front lines healthier, and even a more important role in keeping commanding officers informed with private information stolen from the other side. Although the Revolutionary War took play in 1776, the first law to be passed that permanently stated that women have an official place in the military was in 1948, almost one hundred and seventy-two years later. Since that time there has been a lack of true growth when it comes to integration of females in the military. In 1994, a law was passed that tried to prohibit women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. Women are excluded from more then 25% of active combat roles within the military and only in 2013 was the ban lifted which was the final barrier to allowing women into all active roles. This has been a huge step in the direction for women being considered as being equal but there are still challenges that women face within the military. Ranging from sexual assault, discrimination, bullying, and other tactics, it is clear that for many, the military is still a “boys club.”

Women just aren’t built for the job of frontline combat. Infantrymen have to carry an estimated 100 pounds on their back. At the same time they have to load 90 pound shells into guns that are nearly double the size of that ammunition. This is one of the reasons that women can not handle the stress of frontline combat. Men are built more for the conditions of combat with their broader shoulders and backs, and thicker necks. Women have 45 to 50 percent less upper-body strength, and 25 to 30 percent less aerobic capability. Also men are born with more testosterone in their body. Testosterone enhances the body’s ability to build muscle, which also makes men more built and made for the physical toll of combat.

I'll tell you why. The man is black. For over years now we have been educating only fair and righteous justice to all. And that this "Blind Justice" we respect so very dearly means almost nothing in court. This case, involving Thomas Robbinson and Mayella Ewell should have never come to trial; the sufficient evidence itself became a powerful juggernaut against this man because of one simple fact. He's black. If we were to assume Tom was a healthy white man, still very capable of committing such a felony, was accused of such crimes under the absurd evidence provided. This ridiculous kind of case would never even pass housing court. But no. Thomas Robbinson was born with the power of having... No power. No rights. Is that what we have come to? We are men who practice law for a living and is there any line, any law that says we should tip the scales of justice in favor of whites over blacks? Of course

In Women in the Military, Janette Mance explores the debates and problems faced by the increasing number of women involved in the military. After examining issues such as pregnancy, sexual harassment, and rape, Mance concludes that as a society we must continue to strive for gender equality.