Literature Review On African Americans

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The brutality that African American endured is just terrifying. All they wanted was to live in peace and freedom has taken so many lives. Denial is one of the recommendations that Verna talked about and how we need real people. People need to stop pretending that their not biases. As she explains how being bias is how we are about to associate positive in White people and negative in Black and this in turn results in being biases preferring to be around a White person. Being that a face of a colored person is 70% linked with negative then for the CJS that’s why they are the targets. Staring at important Black man will reset your automatic association and will make you see them in a different way. The second recommendation is to move toward

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