Racism Is Wrong With America

Did you know that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to die than white men? Racism is as old as human society itself. As long as human beings have been around, people have always seemed to have hated or feared people with a different skin color. Racism is just a part of the human nature. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was just 17 when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Sanford, Florida on February 2012. The murder of Trayvon Martin affected many people. The death of Martin was just the first of several deaths where a white person killed a black innocent person. Since the deaths weren’t stopping the #BlackLivesMatter movement began.

In the past years we have seen many riots and debates over the racism and inequalities in our criminal justice system. We have heard story after story, and watched video after video of police brutality and racism in America. We saw the unfair outcome of the Zimmerman and Treyvon Martin case. When George Zimmerman followed Treyvon Martin, a seventeen year old African American boy who was walking around the neighborhood, just because he looked suspicious to him. Even after notifying the police, Zimmerman followed Martin and ended up shooting him, after Zimmerman had hung up with the dispatcher who told him they did not need him

Black people, even today, are subject to racially motivated violence and discrimination in their everyday lives. In the 20th century this kind of treatment was accepted and even at times prompted by authorities. Back then, brutal murders of black men, women, and children

Similar to this theme is the story “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In TKM, Tom Robinson was a man that was found guilty of a crime that he did not even commit. He basically lost the trial and was convicted because he was black. Another case where Joe McKnight’s shooter admitted to being guilty and still was not convicted. In contrary, a case where Rodger Batiste, a black man, killed Shane Vicknair, a white man, and was sentenced to five years. In these couple of sentences alone justice is clearly not on African Americans side.The fact that the roles were switched goes to show that society will do anything in its power to wipe African Americans out. With these examples, it can be seen that there is pure injustice in society, the courts, and everywhere. Nothing has been resolved or fixed in a racism standpoint. Being that Trayvon Martin was a young black kid that looked “suspicious” did him no

In our nation there are a lot of topics that we do not like to talk to talk about, a lot of things that we like to ignore instead of call out because it makes certain people “uncomfortable”. This topic is the unfair treatment towards African-Americans in america. When we kneel for the National Anthem, which we have the right to do, we’re spat on, have drinks poured on us, and called out of our names. There are constant hate crimes against us such as an 8 year old boy being hung for the color of his skin and no act of discipline were done to the teens who hung him. For some reason we even have hate rhetoric in our government.

We spend our entire lives trying to figure out who we are, and as much as we all would like to believe we start with a blank slate, that simply isn’t the case. Some of us are born with, albeit slightly hidden, marks of what our history already dictates for us. Racial perception in society has always been a topic of controversy throughout the entire nation. Based on past occurrences, it has been proven that black and brown people as a whole have been oppressed, mistreated, and even wrongfully persecuted based on social stigmas conceived by society. Society today have the wrong ideologies; they believe that a safer environment means locking away individuals that appear to be a menace or danger based on the color of their skin. However, this mentality is flawed because locking up individuals does not promote a change; it only increases hate and eliminates the chance for someone to change their ways and become a better person. In the novel “Citizen” by Claudia Rankins the poem “In Memory of Trayvon Martin”, “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, alongside the video situation 6, both conveyed that racism is prevalent in the modern world today as one should take to account the toll of microaggressions on the political and personal standpoint of equality for all colored individuals.

African Americans are being unfairly targeted by the police force and other intolerant individuals. There are numerous cases in which African Americans are perhaps intentionally being targeted by the police due to their race. The case of Michael Brown is a perfect example of police misconduct. Officer Darren Wilson saw Brown near a liquor store and felt that he fit the description of another suspect. Brown was frightened by the initial gunshots fired by Officer Wilson when he confronted him, so he began to run away. He eventually stopped to face the policeman and was then shot a few more times and found dead at the scene.

All through the United States the African American community has been targeted by the Caucasian community. We are in the year 2015 and still to this day we are having the same problem our grandparents and their ancestors were dealing with in today’s modern society. A young lady by the name of Renisha McBride became another victim of racism, she was shot and killed asking for help after she was in a car accident. The accident happened in Dearborn Heights Michigan, which is 20 minutes away from the major city Detroit. This is an unfortunate event that happens all the time throughout the country.

I was fourteen when I first became aware of black struggles, particularly in the United States. An innocent, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Martin was shot plainly because he was Black and yet, Zimmerman walked away a free man on the grounds of self-defense. His death had ignited something in me. A teenage boy was murdered because an ignorant, racist and self-glorified man had garnered the sympathy of the justice system. Truthfully, this was only a nudge to the direction. As sad it is, I was still naïve. However, with every bullet that pierced through each innocent black body, the systemic racism that had targeted the Black community for centuries had made itself known to me. More

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift, and a new season of American renewal has begun. (lines 37-38)

African Americans have been victims of racist and discriminatory practices since they were forcibly shipped to America in the 1600s (Chaney & Robertson, 2013). Racism is defined as a belief system that justifies the racial and ethnic inequality of minority members. Discrimination is a specific behavior aimed at denying persons of a particular race equal access to societal rewards. These two heinous attitudes and behaviors have been forcibly brought to the attention of the public by the media in scenarios of police brutality and unequal practices toward minority individuals; specifically African American men. Rodney King, Malice Green, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, and Walter Scott are all African American men that

In the United States the issues of race are a fragile issue. African American people have different treatments only because of their skin color. Nowadays in US this problem is shown mostly by the police, young African American men are treated differently only because their skin color, their culture and tradition. This issue did not start recently, but it was there from a long time ago. Starting from the slavery where the right of freedom did not exist for African Americans and until a not so distant past. The race problems were a serious issue, even now this issue is treated with special caution. African Americans are treated differently in a way or another, and this issue has its roots a long time ago, this treatment is often called “separate but equal”. If we look it in the social context this term means that a group of people (black people), is treated differently from others even though that, that group of people (black people), according to documents of human rights has access to public services and has all other legal rights as the other group (white people). To illustrate this with an example, in the late 1950s, African Americans did many protests against the “separate but equal” doctrine. The reason of this

Throughout the years, most people have said that the social and racial fairness of the human race has been getting closer and closer to reaching full equality, but in my opinion, I really don’t think it has changed much. Just like in To Kill A Mockingbird, the world has just as many prejudiced people that will turn away to the sight of anything discriminatory and act like it isn’t any of their business, and that is a huge issue. For example, during Tom Robinson’s case, nobody believed that he was innocent just because he was a black man. And because of that, they were going to execute him. Just like today, many African Americans are treated the same way. Even though it might not be as harsh as execution, there have been many incidents of hatred

Imagine. It’s a dark February night in Miami. You step out to your local convenience store to grab a couple of snacks. On your way home, you realize someone is following you. After you confront the person, a scuffle breaks out, and it results in your parents having to bury you at a cemetery. This was the unfortunate story of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Martin was killed walking home from the local convenience store only armed with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. After being followed George Zimmerman, a local neighbourhood watch volunteer, Martin decided to confront Zimmerman. The end result leaving Trayvon Martin dead and George Zimmerman a free man. The story of Trayvon Martin proves the point that racism will is still alive and

Despite the civil rights movement, racism is still very much alive and an issue in today's world. I believe that in order for America to end racism we need to stop being racist ourselves. There is no other possible solution to this issue then by just stoping the ideology of it all. Honestly, as long as we still have white supremacists groups out there like the KKK and the Council of Conservative Citizens then we will get nowhere with trying to end racism in America. That is exactly why I believe we need to try harder to get rid of groups and people with mentality's such as these. For gods sake, how do we really expect to end racism in America when Donald Trump a representative of the GOP one of the most oldest and prestigious political parties