Racial Disparities In America

The criminal justice system is a set of organizations and procedures set up by governments to control wrongdoing and force punishments on the individuals who disregard the laws. The main frameworks are state and federal. The state criminal justice systems handle wrongdoings perpetrated inside their state limits and government, the federal criminal system handles violations carried out on federal property or in more than one state. This system is supposed to be equal yet the nature of offenses, differential policing policies and practices, sentencing laws and biases are possible contributors to disparities in the system. The severity of the offense, prior record, age and education level are also taking into account when a decision is being made. Our prison system today varies immensely with ascending numbers of minority groups jailed within the system. Racial and ethnic imbalances continue in the United States and no disparity is more evident than that found in the criminal justice system. Disparity usually refers to a difference that is unfair, disparity in the criminal justice system stems from racial disparity which concludes that the proportion of a racial ethnic group within the control of the system is greater than the population of that group outside that control.

It was once said by Ta-Nehisi Coates that, “We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism.” In today's society and primarily in the criminal justice system over the past few years, there has been an alarming trend of racial profiling amongst minorities. Our society has created its own idea for who black people are. Depicting them as criminals, rapist, drug dealers, gang members,and just overall under a negative light. In recent years, we've seen black lives taken away due to the assumptions and discriminatory mindsets of people like police and overall mainly white people solely because the color of their skin. Although

Racial and ethnic disparities can be a touchy subject when talking among many circle of people, even so with some Caucasian sub-group.US Census reported that 1 in 4 Americans are of a race other than white; 1 in 3 children are African American, Hispanic, or Asian; and 1 in 10 people are of foreign-born. When majority dictated make all decisions and the minorities does not have any power. This cultural diversity can have inferences with our health care. Ethnic culture affects our beliefs, health, illness, and medications, as well as how we interact with our healthcare providers, and even how we comply with our prescribed medications, as well as mental health status (Cultural diversity and Medication Safety , 2003).

As our nation accepts a new president and the realities of politics in a post-Obama world, it is a perfect time to focus the conversation on economic progress and racism. In the past ten years, issues surrounding race and economics have contributed to America’s social classes being in direct competition with each other, while simultaneously causing America to address historical and contemporary racial inequalities that have been hidden in the past. (citation). The current political platform provides us with an opportunity to highlight racism and the economic injustices that have been place on African Americans and many other minorities. Racism is an ideology that is based on the principle that human beings can be subdivided and ranked into

Though you do have very significant points and many supporting ideas about the article in your post, I disagree with how you think that America does not spend enough time talking about racial inequality. We do spend a lot of time complaining about social issues in this country; however, a lot of people complain rather than digging deeper to see why the problems exist. For example, for a period of about five months, I remember hearing news about racial inequality every single day, and every single time I turned the television on the news channel. News anchors would describe events consisting of racism and detail the protests occurring nationwide. These protestors wanted change, how did they want the change to happen? With this, we see

In america we have welcomed a racial divide willingfuly into existance and are doing very little to prevent or stop this from coming into fruition.

Racial inequality has always been an issue of the past in the United States that is still present today, but what happens when racism interferes with the well being and health of minorities? When it comes to health African Americans fall at the bottom of the list. “African Americans are much more likely than people in other racial/ethnic groups to die from heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the biggest reasons for inequality in life expectancy between whites and African Americans.” (Aetna) There are countless influences that contribute to the result of poor health of blacks in the United States such as racial discrimination, environmental exposures, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, the lack of access to health care, incarceration, poverty, various diseases and many more.

I don’t remember a time where I have let things like gender, race, or sexual orientation keep me from having a conversation with someone and becoming their friend. I now realize, there is a term for my philosophy in life; humanism. I have always lived by the basis of humanism without really thinking of the term to describe it. I believe in equality for all human beings and this is what motivates me to face issues in my community and fight to obliterate them. While there are many issues affecting my community, the two I am most passionate about addressing are racial inequalities and mental health awareness.

The United States of America is a country with a history built on diversity and promise of opportunity. Striving to blend multiple cultures and sectors of individuals into a melting pot. However, some state that it has failed citizens, as even after a century of attempting to not see colour African Americans continue to struggle to be viewed as equal and not be discriminated against. In our modern day, "racially open" societies, racial profiling towards African American men can be witnessed frequently in their everyday life. American citizens have witnessed countless cases of police brutality and in recent unlawful murders of black lives, it has become a controversial topic among communities that have seen police brutality take place on their local newsrooms or in front of their homes. Over the past decade police abuse remains one of the most serious human rights violation in the United States. Police officers are trusted and expected to respect society as a whole and enforce the law, yet a great amount of the population feels unsafe because of the colour of their skin. Racism is a global issue that is widely conversed, yet it is still a growing concern amongst the nations of the world. Racial discrimination and/or can be defined as any action, whether intentional or not, based on a person’s race, which has the effect of imposing hate towards an individual or group. As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity

Racial disparities in HIV incidence were examined by both Des Jarlais et al. and Scheer et al. The main objective for Des Jarlais et al. was to identify disparities in HIV incidence during a time period where the HIV epidemic has come to an end. On the other hand, Scheer et al. aimed to estimate the HIV incidence in the state of California in order to prioritize certain populations for HIV prevention and treatment. Participants in Des Jarlais et al. were individuals who were admitted into a drug detoxification program in New York City while Scheer et al. used people living in California aged 13 years or older. To collect data, Des Jarlais et al. utilized a computer-assisted questionnaire to gather demographics and risk behavior information. Only individuals who had been injecting drugs within the past 6 months were included in the study.

They used the term racial performativity to describe a very negative aspect of how some of society may feel about whites and non-whites. This is based on the perception that whites and non-whites are inheritably supposed to perform or act in a certain way like the way they talk, walk, dress, and to me the most important one is the way that whites and non-white are on a different level, when it comes to the subject of intelligence. Racial disparity is a major issue surrounding the so called real word. Society finds any way to keep the thought of the word race going to separate and divide people from each other. This continues to play a role of the destruction of every white and non-white from the understanding that we are the same people aside

Racism is a big topic in America. Some Americans talk about it all the time, and others decline to discuss it at all. Lately, the dialogue has shifted to Law and Order (i.e. racial minorities are more lawless) on the one hand, versus Injustice (i.e. the inherent bias of Police and the criminal justice system against racial minorities) on the other. Actual data support both arguments and therefore do little to address root causes or workable solutions. As an American, I am disheartened.

inequality in American society is getting worse and worse. Rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. Race plays the central role in determining your successes in society. In general, white people are more privileged than people of color. The enrollment rate of white people in public university is 57% while enrollment of African American in public university is 39%.(National Center for Education Statistics). It is clear that tuition is one aspect that affects the enrollment rate of people of color to the public university as African American people are more likely to suffer from poverty. Thus, free education is one of the possible ways to eliminate racial inequality in the US. The resolution of racial inequality could change the society in a good way. First, it gives kids from poor households the opportunity to succeed. They sometimes have no choice but to join a gang in order to support their family, as gangs function like a government, provide jobs and money in ghetto cities. In such areas, it is clear that there is poor public security. Even, polices hesitate to go into these areas. This leads to higher crime rate and causes more fatal crimes such as murder. If we can solve these problems by providing free education, it enables people to live in the more secure neighborhood and prevents people from committing the crimes. It is proved that people with crime rate have less chance of getting a job and it is significant among African Americans which causes them to

The beginning of the law enforcement system was founded on the abuse of people of color with the establishment of slave patrols in the south during the mid-1700s and night watches in the north (Kappeler, 2014). The vigilantes didn’t answer to anyone, and wouldn’t hesitate to harm or even kill these slaves before conducting a proper investigation. These methods were used to inflict fear and control the minorities. Throughout the years these, slave patrols and night watches would evolve into our first police forces. In the early days of law enforcement not all citizens were viewed or treated as equal. So, there wasn’t no let’s work this out or let’s hear them out because most citizens were deemed inferior. This is where the problem lays. Law

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution proposed that humans and animals had a common ancestry (Desmond, 2017), and that species survived by the process of natural selection—a process that results in the adaptation of an organism by selectively reproducing changes in its genetic makeup (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2016). Social Darwinism, derived from Darwin’s evolutionary theory, proposed that natural selection also applied to people, groups, and races (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2017). This would lead people to believe that, since whites were the more advanced societal group, they were the obvious superiors. Though Social Darwinism would decline in the twentieth century, its ideas had been used before and would be used later. This idealism was an underlying cause in many different events throughout history, such as the American Civil War, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and influenced many other actions within larger events: For instance, in WWII, where, although they were a key part of the U.S. army, Navajo soldiers were never raised above the rank of corporal (Bruchac, 2006). Even in our “advanced” society, racism is still a problem.