The book Ordinary Injustice How America Holds Court is a novel written by attorney and journalist Amy Bach about the American legal system, and how it was become flawed. In four chapters, she discusses many different cases where injustice and corruption has occurred in the United States legal system all over the country. I chose to focus on a chapter titled “A Troy Champion” which is the second chapter in the novel written about a beloved city council president, and former judge, named Henry R. Bauer from the city of Troy who is not as just as everyone has come to believe. Bach begins the chapter by discussing how popular Bauer had become. “To walk the streets with Bauer was to accompany a celebrity” (Bach, 77) she says.…
Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western a former Sociology Professor at Princeton University goes into great detail on the evolution of punishment in America and its overall affects. He expands on one of the most controversial topics in America the American penal system; and how it went from a rehabilitative, self-reflecting tool in the early 19th century to a deterrent and strict form of punishment in the mid 20th century. Western also touches base on racial inequality in regards to imprisonment in the United States and the overall effect it has on one group of people. Western begins his book with a brief history of American penitentiaries, naming two famous institutions, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and Auburn State Prison in upstate New York.…
History is plagued with injustice. No century is pure -- whether in regard to religion, politics, or even social justice. Whenever injustice is present there are people who fight for equality. Moses challenged the egyptians to free the jewish, JFK challenged the soviets to free the germans, and MLK challenged the racists to free african americans. Martin Luther King Jr., a famous southern reverend, is credited with lifting the boot of oppression off the blacks in the United States.…
Oppression. Inequality. Poverty. These injustices were the founding principles of the injustice Malcolm X fought to eradicate from American society. Growing up after his father died, Malcolm X moved from home to home.…
The injustices of America’s justice system One like myself does believe that the justice system has in fact been bias towards African-Americans. Many people believe this because our country's history with treating African-Americans horribly and very unfairly. Yes, I do understand that some may believe that the bias of the justice systems towards African-American is just a fallacy and the number of African-American behind bars has nothing to do with an unfair justice system, but there are many studies that have proven otherwise. Even today, black men are being ridiculed because of their skin color.…
The intense famines in Africa are the result of many interwoven factors, but is the final straw the lack of water? It seems that the areas that can grow crops are over-farmed, and without heat-resistant seeds and irrigation the crops that do survive are not enough. Multiple years of crop failure are the foreshadowing of famine, pulling thousands already living in poverty into the cycle of famine, illness and death. Corrupt governments misuse donated funds to support military and other ventures, keeping the growing population in poverty. Many countries even rely on foreign food donations to support their people.…
The United States of America started in the year 1776, when the declaration of independance was proclaimed throughout American history, millions of American citizen around the world abondoned their homelands for a chance to start a new life. Over the past years many immigrante go to other countries have had diffrent reasons such as better life and more jobs opportunity although some come to escape war and difficulty, for example the great hunger wa a period of mass starvation, disease,. The year of 1840s and a1850s the treat of starvation…
“Violence as a way of achieving racial injustice is both impractical and immoral. Violence never brings permanent peace.” Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke those words decades ago, and although those words were spoken years ago, they still relate to today’s world. It seems that the world has transformed into this culture of hate and inequality.…
Early America-Injustices faced by Native American's It is no long lost secret that the early American's had seized the land from those who had settled here first. The Trail of Tears, the Indian Removal Act, and many more incidents had gone underway demoting the place of the Native American's in society. As a result, the Native American ethnicity has become a minority. Many estimate as much as 30% of the Native American population had been shaved down by the diseases brought by the Trail of Tears which forced the Native American's to migrate West to present day Oklahoma yet affected many due to circumstances of the migration such as a harsh winter or lack of survival means. Unfortunately such oppression is only bound to force epidemics such…
Racial disparity in the criminal system may influence a judge’s discretion on a case where a crime may be morally wrong, yet the decision of a judge may give a less sentence based on race, status, and history. For example, graduate Judge Aaron Persky in the State of California vs. Brock Turner case, gave Brock Turner a 6-month sentence instead of 6 years in a rape case. Many felt that Judge Persky was being too leniency and may have been biased because he and the perpetrator went to Standard. Even though Judge Persky didn’t violate any laws by his ruling, however he may have overused his discretion, where there aren’t any clear instructions on how to make a decision on a case, so one may have to use their discretion. Issues dealing with the…
Oppression, according to Dictionary.com, is defined as the exercise of authority/power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. Oppression can come in many forms, but the most prevalent in today’s America I economic oppression. The higher class can not only rely on the labor of those in lower classes, but control the flow of the economy through their businesses, advertising, and the media. However, while this economic oppression directly effects all types of people, those who also face racism in their life have even more barriers in the economic world.…
American media sources continue to put greater emphasis on mass shootings while the need for social acknowledgement and understanding of people with disabilities fails to receive much public attention. One of the biggest media outlets in the United States, CNN, recently published an article entitled “The terror from within: What drives a 'perfect ' boy to kill?” in which writer Ann O’Neill takes a look at a trial involving a person with a confirmed mental disability who was charged with committing mass murder. O’Neill describes the case for James Holmes, better known as the Aurora shooter, as one that many wish to see conclude with a death penalty verdict. The controversy of whether someone with a mental disability deserves a death sentence…
The introduction of the article opened with a statement that racial privilege still exists in America. Phillips and Lowery (2015) identify Caucasians as the most privileged of all races. They claimed that whites had better earnings (Hao, 2011) greater life expectancy (Bleich, Jarlenski, Bell, & LaVeist, 2012) better access to health care (Smedley, Stith, & Nelson, 2003) and high-quality education (Rumberger, 2010) than other races, specifically African-Americans. As a result of their view of life in a meritocratic way, they are unable to acknowledge their own racial privilege and it results in their diminished support for affirmative action policies. Moreover, Phillips and Lowery hypothesized that claiming personal hardships help Whites from…
. “America incarcerates more people than any other country on Earth,” argues Shane Smith. Seventy-five percent of people arrested for nonviolent drug charges are blacks and Hispanics. For minorities the system is broken because the system is biased to them. The justice system is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but for Latinos and blacks the system is guilty until proven innocent.…
I have shown that due to the fact of skin color, one is more likely to be pulled over and serve a longer sentence than that of a non-Hispanic White man. I have shown there is inequality structured within the structure. I have broken it down into three separate races describing what they are most convicted for, how long they are sentenced, and how long they serve their sentence. Racial inequality does exist. This inequality stems from the time of slavery when diversity was not accepted.…