White Supremacy In 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

Even though drug laws are shown to be neutral and have no targeted audience, it can be implied that the War on Drugs was set in place to have Blacks arrested at an alarming rate to. African-Americans also have a disproportionately high

White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to others because of their race. Prior to the Civil War, racism and white supremacy had been common attitudes in both the North and the South. After the Emancipation

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book written by Michelle Alexander. This book explains the mass incarceration that African-American males faced in the United States. Alexander uses many examples of discrimination throughout the book, but the most prevailing one to me was how the criminal justice system used to the War on Drugs. Alexander describes a “racial caste system” as a way that African-Americans are kept at a lower social standing then the white people. The way that Alexander presents her arguments allows we the reader to see the true racism that was faced by African- Americans. This book gives many arguments but there are some main arguments that Alexander stresses throughout the book that

Modern day racism and hatred against African-Americans can be traced back to slavery in the Colonial Americas. Over 10 million slaves were taken and brought into the New World. These slaves if they were to survive the way would face a harsh life of servitude to their white masters. Africans slaves were and plentiful and cheap labor source in the 1700’s. Slavery was very controversial in the colonies. The practice had many believers and critics. Slavery was a brutal but big part of American history.

The GI Bill was enacted to provide Federal Government aid for the readjustment in civilian life of returning World War II veterans (GI Bill of Rights). The bill provided African Americans who returned home from the military to receive an education. It also provided the veterans with guaranteed loans to help them break out of the continuous cycle of poverty. Loans that helped with buying a home and creating a business or finding a job. The African Americans were still steered out of the primarily white neighborhoods.

The United States used War on Drugs as the reason to have mass incarceration and arrest people of color, especially the black people. The government arrest the black people into jail by accuse them selling or consuming crack cocaine, however, it is the government (CIA) who allowed guerrilla armies to bring the crack cocaine to the black neighborhood. The War on Drugs is just one of the excuse that government used to put black Americans into jail and this mass incarceration is their tool for social control. This way, they can separate the white people and people of color and maintain their racial hierarchy.

African Americans are shown to likely be arrested and punished more severely than white people. This is a result of the war on drugs, the world 's most effective way to fill prisons with minorities while doing nothing to curtail drug use, has warped the priorities and practices of police departments around the country(Gwynne). The war on drugs was a campaign started by the Reagan Administration in 1982; his anti-drug rhetoric was used to shape the stereotypical target of the war-blacks. Such rhetoric

Bill of Rights of 1944 was signed into law as an expansion of welfare for people who have served in the armed services with three major tenets: 1) government guarantee of loans for homes, farms, and business, 2) tuition and stipend for veterans able to get into college or a job training program, and 3) health care (if injured in active line of duty). While he does not refute the idea that the GI Bill created a more middle-class society, Katznelson explains it is almost exclusively for whites. He argues that the people who benefited the most from the government guarantee of loans were white Americans due to redlining. How did this happen? Economic security was determined by home ownership, but banks would not give out loans to people who lived in areas on a map that had been redlined, which were neighborhoods determined by race. In terms of education, the gap between whites and blacks widened. Black veterans were denied admission to universities and job training programs in both the North and South. And although the doctrine of “separate but equal” had been upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson, black colleges were not created equal. Limited to education, theology, and various trades, it was nearly impossible for blacks to participate in graduate or professional training (133). However, Katznelson does mention that “it is indisputable that the G.I. Bill offered eligible African Americans more benefits and more opportunities than they possibly could have imagined in the early

War on Drugs Since the 1980s, America has used over $1 trillion in fighting illegal drugs, but this has not changed the demand and supply of the illegal substances (UNODC, 2011). The war on illicit drugs has mostly been racial mainly to the Hispanic and the African-Americans. According to research, the whites engage in substance abuse more than the African-Americans, but incarcerations for drug offenses have been ten times higher in the blacks as compared to the whites (Bobo & Thomson, 2010). All the efforts to fight drugs in the US have yielded almost nothing to prove to the taxpayer that the cost is worth; it is crucial that the criminal justice system implements other means to reduce the use of drugs, in particular

The fight against racism and the oppression of people of color is about equality. However, Malcom X suggests something much sinister in 'Learning to read. ' Composed from interviews taken shortly before X 's death, The Autobiography of Malcom X was ghost-written by Alex Hayley in 1965. In the excerpt Learning to Read, X recalls the moment that his eyes were opened to slavery, oppression, and racism through literary works. The rhetoric X uses to convey his point, while passionate and progressive towards people of color, is decidedly racist and supremacist. Malcom X uses rhetoric, particularly historical and scholarly references, to convey a message of people of color 's racial supremacy over the oppressive white man.

Racism has been around since the beginning of time, whether it was between the Egyptians and Israelites, the Spaniards and the Native Americans, or the people of the United States and Africans. The latter group of people were enslaved by the former, and while that does not exist anymore, racism still exists. Slavery has been abolished since 1865 in the United States, but there are still people in our country that do not believe that minorities are equal. For that reason, their lives are still different than the lives of the people in the majority race. Whether they are African American, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, etc., their lives are usually much different than those of European descent. Growing up with an African American father and mother

Racism, “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race” (Merriam-Webster). Racism, a broad topic that continues to be a problem in our society that affects all races regardless of class and color. Racial inequality, “a disparity in opportunity and treatment that occurs as a result of someone’s race” (Merriam-Webster). One’s identity of race should not determine an individual’s lifestyle. This problem existed in the past, and continues to be a problem in our current society. Although racial inequality continues to be a problem in our modern society, acknowledging racial inequality is important before change can take charge. In

African Americans experienced restricted socioeconomic opportunities and civil rights after World War II. Black veterans returning from the war were not allowed the same financial and educational benefits of the G.I. Bill beginning in 1944 (Hall 1241). The South continued to disenfranchise African Americans in the workplace. Rising economic gaps could be seen through United States capitalism (Hall 1243).

Race is a social construct based on biological, physical differences with intentions to classify individuals and separate. The basis for which race was constructed for was to have an “us” and “them” perception. Racism is when the dominated race of a particular society perceives any minority race to be inferior to their race. The minority race is inferior because the dominant race holds the minority race to the standards of dominant culture because to them their world is ideal. When you are different or go against the norms, the dominant culture does not understand so they credit the minority race will having the issue.