Discrimination in the Justice System
August 9th began as any other day for young Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri. Little did he know that walking down the street would end his life in just a blink of an eye. Officer Darren Wilson, who ruined the Brown family and took an innocent life by mistake, will not suffer nor be punished. It is moments like these when society must come to realize the obvious discrimination in the justice system. African Americans, especially, but minorities of all color and ethnicity, have been victim to endless amounts of prejudice. From the slavery, to the civil rights movement, developing all the way into the Black Lives Matter movement of today, this discrimination has been famous for far longer than accepted. Many argue that some has been resolved, but …show more content…
In “King Kong and the ‘blonde lady,’” a case in South Carolina, Bennett ends up sentenced to death for stabbing and killing one of his friends. Prosecutor Donald Myers did not go easy on the African American, especially since the jurors were all white which was one simplistic sign of discrimination. When there are no other race jurors except caucasians, it becomes a quick sign of discrimination because it shows no diversity in the one place where everyone should be treated equally. That right there was not the only part of this court case where discrimination occurred. Myers went ahead during Bennett’s conviction and referred to Bennet as “King Kong” and a beast of burden, and also pointed a non-correlation statement saying that Bennett dated a white women. The Supreme Court later ruled that they did recognize the statements made and could consider them racial connotations but did nothing about it. At the end of all of this, Bennett remained on death row. Later, one of the white jurors described Bennett as a “dumb nigg*r” for his crime (Bookman
August 9th began as any other day for young Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri. Little did he know that walking down the street would end his life in just a blink of an eye. Officer Darren Wilson, who ruined the Brown family and took an innocent life by mistake, will not suffer nor be punished. It is moments like these when society must come to realize the obvious discrimination in the justice system. African Americans, especially, but minorities of all color and ethnicity, have been victim to endless amounts of prejudice. From the slavery, to the civil rights movement, developing all the way into the Black Lives Matter movement of today, this discrimination has been famous for far longer than accepted. Many argue that some has been resolved, but …show more content…
In “King Kong and the ‘blonde lady,’” a case in South Carolina, Bennett ends up sentenced to death for stabbing and killing one of his friends. Prosecutor Donald Myers did not go easy on the African American, especially since the jurors were all white which was one simplistic sign of discrimination. When there are no other race jurors except caucasians, it becomes a quick sign of discrimination because it shows no diversity in the one place where everyone should be treated equally. That right there was not the only part of this court case where discrimination occurred. Myers went ahead during Bennett’s conviction and referred to Bennet as “King Kong” and a beast of burden, and also pointed a non-correlation statement saying that Bennett dated a white women. The Supreme Court later ruled that they did recognize the statements made and could consider them racial connotations but did nothing about it. At the end of all of this, Bennett remained on death row. Later, one of the white jurors described Bennett as a “dumb nigg*r” for his crime (Bookman