Inhuman Treatment Of African Americans

African Americans, prior to the 1960’s, were suffering under great oppression as they were treated as second-class citizens who did not deserve their full rights.

Many jail cells and prisons hold more African Americans than colleges and universities. This is a major problem for younger men and women that have to witness this because if this is all they are exposed to then this will be all they know. It does not only affect younger children or teenagers but close family members, wives, and parents. The mass incarceration of African Americans is becoming the norm for our men and women because the ¨white man¨ or the government is subliminally fighting to oppress African Americans and hold them back from any chance of prosperity that they have.

African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated; that is 60% of 30% of the African American population. African Americas are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites. “Between 6.6% and 7.5% of all black males ages 25 to 39 were imprisoned in 2011, which were the highest imprisonment rates among the measured sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age groups." (Carson, E. Ann, and Sabol, William J. 2011.) Stated on Americanprogram.org “ The Sentencing Project reports that African Americans are 21 percent more likely to receive mandatory-minimum sentences than white defendants and are 20 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison.” Hispanics and African Americans make up 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population. (Henderson 2000). Slightly 15% of the inmate population is made up of 283,000 Hispanic prisoners.

Police brutality against African Americans is nothing new in today’s society. Twenty five years after the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and countless other unarmed African American men and women have become victims of police officers. Riots and protests in places like Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland have garnered the issue and unprecedented amount of attention, especially in the media. It has also caused an outcry among the American people for both sides involved. Notably, it has brought about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s penning of Between the World and Me. In his short novel addressed as a letter to his son, he discusses the fear that all African Americans Coates himself saw growing up in Baltimore. He tells his son, and therefore the reader, stories of his own childhood and young adulthood and of the problems and issues he sees within America. These problems lie within the justice system, the education system, and within our society as a whole.

    Since the beginning of American history, the black race has been the inferior race during times of slavery and times of freedom for black people. They have had to fight to be seen as legitimate first-class citizens, whether that be through slave uprisings in the pre-civil war era, the civil rights movement in the mid-1900’s, or the Black Lives Matter campaign that was started in 2013. Though not everyone has lived an easy life, and not everyone will, the people who have had it the hardest were the enslaved African-Americans in the early stages of our country.

Mass Incarceration of African American men has become a social injustice of our time. It can also be proclaimed to be known as a civil rights issue of our time. From the first time Africans were taken from their homeland and stripped of all human rights to become slaves, they- or we perhaps- have never truly possessed any real social justice. What does mass incarceration really mean to our black America? How does it affect our communities? When we really look at it, mass incarceration means a lot more than being placed in the back of a police car with handcuffs clinching your bones. It means a lot more than sitting in a jail or prison cell waiting for your time to be served.

As I was conducting research about police brutality I came up with three questions I wanted to find out. I wanted to know what race group is affected by police brutality the most, why they were affected by this the most and what to do to stop police brutality involving shooting civilian. This Paper talk about how police brutality is a major issue in America right now. There’s many different types of police brutality but police officers killing civilians is something that is issue in our nation currently. After doing reaching this topic I was able to find out that African Americans have been affected by this the most out of any race. African Americans are affected by this the most because in some cases African Americans are usually stereotyped and this causes them to be treated different by police. Ways we can help this issue is by supporting these organizations that are against police brutality and encouraging police officers around the nation to always have a body camera on them at all times.

But if we have better communication between the good cops with the community, there would be less of the bad cops who kill for no reason. Police brutality against African Americans have been increasing over the past couple of years. Proper training of law enforcers and better education to the community will help ensure some of these incidents would not end with a life lost. “Police need to learn more than logistics of policing but also the broader significance of their role in society” (Police Need Better). In this statement it is saying that yes, the job of the police to enforce the law, but also to ensure the safety of general public. Many Caucasian officers are getting away with the senseless killings of the African American population. For instance, in the case with Michael Slager trial, there was a mistrial declared. “A judge in Charleston declare a mistrial Monday after a jury deliberated 22 hours over four days without reaching a unanimous verdict. Slager, 35, testified he feared for his life when he shot Scott, 50, in the back as he fled a traffic stop in April 2015” (Bacon). There is now a delay in the justice that Walter Slager deserves.

The African Americans, experienced for many centuries was very poorly in fact that they treated unfairly. In the communities today African Americans are targeted by their color of their skin. The police brutality towards black people is tremendously horrifying. The population of prisons in the U.S

Albeit, the African Americans were relieved of slavery, but they continued to be treated unequally in all other positions of their lives. Their lives were heavily restricted in terms of associating with whites. The color of their skin completely changed how African Americans were regarded. They were not free because they had limited choices, including where they could go, what they could do, and who they could marry. Even though they were acknowledged, they were not respected and their rights as humans were incomplete. Slavery was an impactful and apparently ceaseless era of time, and when it finally came to a close, blacks had a sense of freedom, but they were left with a very narrowed lifestyle. Blacks, like the rest of us, should be treated as equal; but in the 1800’s, and even in the modern day, they were

The inception of “race” began in America during the European colonization. The Europeans captured and enslaved the Africans, in Africa and traveled to America and found a new breed of humans, the Native Americans. The Europeans found the Africans and Native Americans from themselves based on their physical characteristics and who they worshipped differently. Since they found this abnormal, they treated them as barbarians. The treatment of both races by the Europeans were unjustifiably inhumane. With that being said, is there a difference today in treatment between races, by one another?

African Americans have been through a lot, they had to face their worst fears. They were treated like they meant nothing to nobody. Every African person was considered a “ three fifths “ of a person. They including their children were affected in many ways. For example, there was this law named, Jim Crow, this law was passed in the 1880s. This law stated that African American children's had to go to a separate schools from the American “ Whites “, they were not allowed to drink from the same fountain as whites, they had to seat all the way in the back of the buses, they had to eat from a separate restaurant, can not step in a public library or even attend the publick parks. This also affected the adults, they were not allowed to work in department

There should be no abolishment of man’s inhumanity to man based on colors, status, or gender. African American struggled for ending the slavery. To them, it seemed like it will go forever, but it has not. From the author’s works, we can grasp that the people could not go wherever they wished, they could not attend in school they wanted, and they could not live wherever they have chosen to live. The government segregated education, medical care, schools, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people. Whites maintained domination over them to limit their freedom and pride. Obviously, the lack of democracy and the lack of organizations such as human rights and gender commissions to protect

I am in total agreement with your precise assessment of the maltreatment and exploitation of the African slaves. How dare they flaunt the misuse of our forefather’s well-earned freedoms from our past oppressors? Do they not remember the sufferings of the American people prior to the Revolutionary War? How daunting and belittled they were by their masters’ empowerment over their lives and freedoms? No matter how we recollect our own past of injustice, it could never compare to the ill-treatment the black slaves had to endure each day to survive in this world of slavery. Mr. Benjamin Lay best describes this injustice through the following quote, “But I know no worse engine devil has to make widows and fatherless children,

In conclusion to doing great reading and learning and educating myself with the time frames and what had happened. It allowed me to see and follow through with times, yes, African Americans had suffered from being slaves to fighting for civil rights. They wanted the same life as whites a lot of high protesters and men and woman were intellectuals who held degrees but yet; they were not allowed to come out and be what their profession allowed them to be: lawyers, priest, teachers and much more they had to take a stand. Whites became in feared that blacks were allowing themselves to strive for educating and success. Negroes, as the back era had called them beat them lynched them and brutally left them to survive in the streets, is it the