White Girls Runaways

William Grimes in the, Life of William Grimes the Runaway Slave, and Harriet Jacobs in the, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, both wrote about their lives under the hands of slavery. Though they both experienced hardships, the difference in gender played a role in how their enslavement was endured. These different experiences influenced different tones. In Chapter three of Incidents, Jacobs tone is emotional, hopeless and depressing. She writes “ But to the slave mother New Year’s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows.

Although a crime is reported in the Uniform Crime Report does not mean that the arrestee in that crime is representative of the population. It is easy to misinterpret the Uniform Crime Report and generalize a certain race or even gender to a particular crime. We often see poor, nonwhite males in the Uniform Crime Report for committing Part I crimes. This diverts the attention away from the wealthy white businessman who might be a part of white-collar crime. White-collar crime is hardly represented in this type of crime measurement (Barkan, 2012).

In order to understand the nature of the statistical disparity, the first aspect that must be examined is necessarily the statistics themselves. Recent data (1998) shows that more than two out of every three arrested persons are white (67.6%) and that African Americans account for only 30% of all arrests. More striking is the data adjusted per capita: African Americans are two and a half times as likely to be arrested as whites, and are even more over-represented in violent crimes, for which they are over three times as likely to be arrested. African Americans are five times as likely to be arrested in cases of robbery or murder (Walker et al., 39).

Many of these crimes were committed by white people against black people, ranging in severity of being falsely accused of a crime to being brutally assaulted to being needlessly murdered. Willis Fowler was

Contrabands was a term established during the Civil War, by General Benjamin Butler. It was given to “slaves who had escaped to the Union or were captured by the Unions troops”(220). Additionally, the were considered enemy property by the Union. Union troops did not free them, but they did not reenslave them either. Instead, the Union put them to work, fed, clothed, and housed the slaves. They also still were not permitted to go and come as they pleased. However, on August 6th, 1861 congress passed the First Confiscation Act. This clarified the status of runaway’s slaves and it allowed federal forces to obtain any property that belong to the Confederates used in the war. In addition, this act declared that slaves who were used by their masters

Many legal statements and documents show that black people are prevalent to various criminal cases compared to the white people. These claims have been based on allegations that the police force is bias and they suspect every black person by taking them in even on minor offenses. The black community is also faced with the problem of misrepresentation of their cases leading to them filling most of the United States prisons. However, there are substantial pieces of evidence that clearly show that the black people are actively involved in many crimes in the United States. There is no tangible evidence to articulate and form an inference between the relationship of race and criminal activity.

The previous data involves citizens of all races, but those of color had a greater chance of being abused by cops (Farina). Minority groups, including people of African descent, are “more than fifty percent more likely to have an interaction with police which involves any use of force… [and] blacks are twenty-one point three percent more likely to be involved in an interaction with police in which at least a weapon is drawn than whites” (Fryer). Police violence against those of African descent in America is not anything new; the only prominent difference is that people have become more knowledgeable of it through the rising amount of news coverage on the topic, social media, and the many video recordings taken by citizens or police cameras that have arisen from the advancement of cell phones with videoing capabilities. Attention to the violence against African-Americans by the police was really started after the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and only continued to grow into and during, this, the twenty-first century (Dreier). Due to this increase in public attention to the issue different counties and even the federal government have attempted to take action on tackling the bias and brutality against blacks expressed by the police

Mac Donald (2008) looks at the idea that cops over arrest blacks and ignore the crimes that whites commit. However, the races of criminals that are reported by the victims do in fact match arrest data. According to a research study as far back as 1978, “a study of robbery and aggravated assault in eight cities found parity between the race of assailants in victim identifications and in arrests--a finding replicated many times since, across a range of crimes” (Mac Donald, 2008, p. 15). It does not make sense to think why crime victims would be biased in the reports they give to the police.

“It is only White privilege…. that allows us often times to view criminals of the dominant group as mere individuals while too often viewing Black and brown folk through the lens of a group pathology whenever one of theirs violate our legal and moral norms” (Tim Wise, 2009) This opening statement, given by Tim Wise at a White Privilege conference in 2009, was one of the first to catch my attention because it is nothing less than fact. There have been many instances of violence in this country, perpetrated by Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, the list can go on and on. However, the difference between when Whites commit crimes versus when minorities commit crimes, is White Privilege. Peggy McIntosh (1988) described White privilege as a set of undeserved benefits that a White person in America can use every day, yet they remain unaware of the privilege they have. According to Christine Emba (2009) of Washington Post, White privilege is the level of “societal advantage that comes with being seen as the norm in America, automatically conferred irrespective of wealth, gender or other factors.” It is

The media, in particular broadcasting news, has catered to stereotypes of non-whites by over-representing minorities as the assailants in violent crime. These types of practices are clearly detrimental to the advancement of those who have been handicapped by the ignorance of the past. In the first part of the paper we examine the effects of the rise of local news, charting specific studies

I disagree, based on table 358: Arrests by offense and race/ethnicity: 2014 by the federal bureau of investigation, the total number of offenses charged were 8,730. 6,056.7 are white, 2,427.7 are Black and 1,234.3 are Hispanic or Latino. Violent crime total 390.2, 231.8 White, 147.0 Black and 73.6 Hispanic or Latino. 1,218.7, white 838.4, black 346.4 and Hispanic or Latino. Certain crimes are committed more by certain races. For example murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, blacks were charged more at 4.2, white 3.8 and Hispanic 1.3. More white were charged with rape at 11.0, black 4.9 and Hispanic or Latino 3.1. More black were charged with robbery 41.4 to white 31.4 and Hispanic or Latino 11.4.

Figures show that in 2006/07 the arrest rate for blacks was 3.6 times the rate for whites. By contrast, once arrested, black and Asians were less likely tan white to

This idea was brought into perspective by Moore after discovering that the common excuses for gun violence such as violent movies and video games were unjustifiable due to the fact that other countries also consume these forms of entertainment and do not have the same high rate of violence in their country. Rebecca McCray, who writes for a website called takepart, says that, “this form of fear is built into white American’s DNA, deeply rooted in destructive stereotypes of the black name as perpetual predator that harken back to slavery era revolts.” These stereotypes have been the basis of the racism problem in America. Many of the white Americans who responded to a study in 2010 estimated a higher rate of crime committed by blacks by 20-30 percent when in reality 83 percent of white people are killed by white people. McCray also admits that ‘numbers like that make it easier to understand why a white resident may call the police after a black resident in unfounded anticipation of violence to

It is believed that African Americans are the criminals, Caucasians are the victims, and women are too weak to even be in the system. Is this information accurate? I believe that crime should not be totally focused on minorities, although the media seems to portray it that way. There have been a lot of crime where a Caucasian was the mastermind and its workers who are African American get punished for those crimes. Society notices minorities

The 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt, once said “Criminality is in the ultimate analysis a greater danger to your race than any other thing can be” (Youtube). By this he means that the greatest danger to one’s race is crime. Crime will take down a race and even put a negative label on a race for all people to see. Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti stated that “Statistics on homicide and other assaultive crimes in the United States consistently show that Negroes have rates between four and ten times higher than Whites” (). This statement is definitely true because blacks do indeed have the highest rates of crimes committed even though Whites commit more crime. They shower higher involvement in crime than whites do. In 2013, about 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites occurred. Blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a black person was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than white person attacking a black. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa (The Color of Crime). With this said those being of a certain race does not determine their fate as it relates to committing a crime. Factors