Essay On African Americans

Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, explained how our treatment of criminals has created a new racial caste system, and the only way to make change is by massive social change and Civil Rights movement. The criminal laws often focus on psychoactive drugs used by the minority populations. Minorities are disproportionately targeted, arrested, and punished for drug offenses. For instance, Black, Latino, Native American, and many Asian were portrayed as violent, traffickers of drugs and a danger to society. Surveillance was focused on communities of color, also immigrants, the unemployed, the undereducated, and the homeless, who continue to be the main targets of law enforcement efforts to fight the war on drugs. Although African Americans comprise only 12.2 percent of the population and 13 percent of drug users, they make up 38 percent of those arrested for drug offenses and 59 percent of those convicted of drug offenses causing critics to call the war on drugs the “New Jim Crow”(drug policy). The drug

Crime has always been a hot topic in sociology. There are many different reasons for people to commit criminal acts. There is no way to pinpoint the source of crime. I am going to show the relationship between race and crime. More specifically, I will be discussing the higher chances of minorities being involved in the criminal justice system than the majority population, discrimination, racial profiling and the environment criminals live in.

In the 1970s, President Nixon declared a war on drugs. The War on Drugs is a government movement aiming toward a prohibition of illegal drugs. Nixon dramatically increased drug control agencies, and reinforced the mandatory sentence. He placed the crime in the most restrictive category of drugs. The original budget for waging this war was one trillion dollars. In October of 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs. It marked the beginning of a long period of incarceration. Reagan increased anti-drug spending and increased the number of federal drug enforcement. During his campaign, he integrated the dog whistle strategy to discriminate against the African Americans. Since there was a mass incarceration of African Americans

Race and crime are interwoven with how justice and criminology are handled. Police have a racial bias against blacks and incarcerate them in larger numbers than any other race. Statistically, blacks have a higher arrest and incarceration rate than other races do. Due to police being taught that racial profiling is a necessary part of the job, blacks have now become a prime target for many false arrests and often serve jail time for a crime they may not have committed. The black community often expresses their distaste with the criminal justice system, and how their community is handled, but encounter opposition from a group of people who believe nothing is wrong. With justice and bias, there are many improvements that need to be made regarding how criminals are arrested and charged, especially when race is a factor.

population, they account for 29% of arrests, 38% of prisoners in state and federal facilities, 42% of death penalty cases, and 37% of executions (Crutchfield, D. Robert & Fernandes,April & Martinez, Jorge 2010). The “land of the free” is home to mass incarceration and 2,306,200 million prisoners in the world. The system did not become broken overtime but rather it was built that way from the very beginning. The minorities mainly the African Americans have always been victims of oppression throughout history beginning with slavery and it continued to happen in our own constitution. Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. worked very hard to have white individuals understand that blacks were just as human as they were and they deserved to have rights as well as other Americans as it said in our own constitution, but to have voiced such leadership in the black community was frowned upon and needed to be shut down very quickly. This topic of discussion can be argued on either side of the spectrum but we all know deep down the injustice that there is in our criminal justice system. “History is not stuff that happens by accident, we are the products of the history our ancestors choose, if we were white. If we are black we are products of the history that our ancestors did not choose for us” (Averick, Spence & Barish, Howard & DuVernay, Ava,

Within media and society there are seemingly different representations of race and crime. They are different in how they are constructed for their perceived audience in the majority and the opinion that is supposed to be evoked by the event. Within the public perception of crime in reality there is abundant racism that has been socially constructed over many generations. Whereas media crime is gentrified and critiqued in such a way as to support fears and intrigue into crime through violence from what could rarely happen to the viewer. When both of these are combined the social construction of race is reinforced. Through crime television shows the allure of feeling a crime through draws an audience.

As a nation we pride ourselves on being culturally diverse, yet we're still asking the question of whether one race should be treated differently than another. Imagine two people of different races committing the same crime, but one being dealt with differently than the other purely due to the colour of their skin. Realistically, in what society would this be morally acceptable? If youths with an African background are to be dealt with more harshly it would surely be an act of racism. There is no link between criminal activity and race, despite the interpretation of some from the abundance of media coverage which is presented dependant on the race of the criminal. Treating youths with an African background differently, it would not only be an act of racism but would also further exclude them from the Australian society which we live in.

"The Uniform Crime Report statistics state that blacks are more frequently arrested than whites. While this may mean that blacks actually commit more crime, what are some other factors that may be driving the statistics?"

Racism occurs when one ethnic group or race discriminates, dominates, excludes or attempts to eliminate a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. It has been one of the most common issues in humanity. racism is the root of hate crime. Racism has been around since before the United States of America was established. Although historical events such as slavery, Columbus discovering the Americas, the tragic Holocaust led by Hitler and the 911 terrorist attacks have all been influential to racism and hate crime the most important and recent cause of the rise of hate crime in the United States has been the election of Donald Trump as president.

In 2015, in the US, 2.3 million people were incarcerated. Of that population, nearly one million were African American. According to the NAACP, thirty-two percent of those arrested for drug-related crimes in the US are African Americans while only twelve percent of drug users are African American. This would indicate that the idea that the United States is a post racial nation is incorrect.

Although most African Americans in the United States are Protestant, 78% compared with only 51% of the United States as a whole. I will note that Protestantism in the U.S. and in the black community is not homogenous. It is divided among three main steam traditions, evangelical Protestant churches, mainline Protestant churches and historically black Protestant churches.

Our generation is made up of a new identity, whether you believe a certain religion of you are a certain race you can make a new life in America. The older white citizen can tell you how hard it was for them as a child, sometimes having to wake up at the crack of dawn to go and work all day in the berry fields for a nickle a quart. But they did not know by doing so that they were shaping their American identity. If you were to go up to an older African-American man or woman they would have told you a completely different story.

First of all, in the past few years there have been multiple incidents proving that America has not yet achieved racial equality, and possibly never will. For example, there have been many incidents where a white cop has shot an African American, some armed and some not, but no matter the reason for why the cop shot them, it is almost immediately believed to be because of race (Black Lives Matter: 11 Racist Police Killings With No Justice Served). "’Unarmed black men are seven times more likely than whites to die by police gunfire,’ the Washington Post reports on police brutality targeted at black Americans. The report estimated that an unarmed black man was shot and killed by police every nine days in 2015.”(11 Facts about Racial Discrimination). This statistic was stated just last year, therefore proving that America has not yet reached racial equality and is quite a ways from it.

Several characters ' stories interweave during a couple of days in Los Angeles. There is a African American detective who does not have a relationship with his mother and his criminal younger brother with a gang member; a Caucasian district attorney and his prejudice and pampered wife; a racist white police officer who dislikes his partner because he is so idealistic; an African American Hollywood director and his wife who have some problems with the racist white cop; a Persian-immigrant father who doesn 't trust others and a hardworking Hispanic family man who is a locksmith. The film different from other racial films for it is impartial compared to others. For example, the movies does not split the characters into victims and offenders.

African Americans suffer from economic, psychological, political and social exploitation at the hands of powerful Whites in this country. As a result of this exploitation, Black people usually are put into situations where the commission of a criminal act is often seen as the most effective resolution to their problems. Most Caucasians, however, will probably never understand the predicament in which most Black find themselves. Stolen from our homeland and then forced to work under the most miserable conditions imaginable. African American not paid any money and kept in slavery of different forms and fashions up to this very day. Black people have been under the constant control of whites since coming into this country. Today, white