Black Children Not Considered as Children
The articles (Patton, 2014), “In America, black children don’t get to be children”, written by Stacy Patten in November 2014, suggests from research by researchers, psychologists and anthropologists that black American children are innately inferior, dangerous and indistinguishable from black adulthood, whereas not innocence as their opposite race, whites are. The lives of the black youth have trickled to a devastating issue in America. As life is full of dualism, male-female, binary system black-white, superiority- inferiority, right-wrong and up-down. It makes one wonder, why are black youth lives not concerned innocent or worthy.
My reaction to this article comes also from a dualistic approach. Police deemed to serve and protect seemingly are taking the role of the courts: judging, sentencing and executing. This can be linked to police officers considered as to having discretionary power while dealing with youth …show more content…
They have actually used what is called “counsel and dismiss” on white youths more so than black youths, meaning when a status offense is committed the delinquent is counseled and released into parental custody for further discipline, including station adjustment (Hess, 2013). The article, “For a Kid of Color, Unavoidable Contact With the Cops” is an example of this was included in In this article, a black youth found himself subject to police harassment over years of his childhood because of his affiliation with an assumed gang member. By the time he ranged teenage years, he found himself facing adult charges for a crime he did not commit with a sentence of life in prison, while at the same time a white offender with the same charges and a drug offense faced only drug court (Pitre,
The articles (Patton, 2014), “In America, black children don’t get to be children”, written by Stacy Patten in November 2014, suggests from research by researchers, psychologists and anthropologists that black American children are innately inferior, dangerous and indistinguishable from black adulthood, whereas not innocence as their opposite race, whites are. The lives of the black youth have trickled to a devastating issue in America. As life is full of dualism, male-female, binary system black-white, superiority- inferiority, right-wrong and up-down. It makes one wonder, why are black youth lives not concerned innocent or worthy.
My reaction to this article comes also from a dualistic approach. Police deemed to serve and protect seemingly are taking the role of the courts: judging, sentencing and executing. This can be linked to police officers considered as to having discretionary power while dealing with youth …show more content…
They have actually used what is called “counsel and dismiss” on white youths more so than black youths, meaning when a status offense is committed the delinquent is counseled and released into parental custody for further discipline, including station adjustment (Hess, 2013). The article, “For a Kid of Color, Unavoidable Contact With the Cops” is an example of this was included in In this article, a black youth found himself subject to police harassment over years of his childhood because of his affiliation with an assumed gang member. By the time he ranged teenage years, he found himself facing adult charges for a crime he did not commit with a sentence of life in prison, while at the same time a white offender with the same charges and a drug offense faced only drug court (Pitre,