There are so many factors involved that causes minorities to be disproportionately affected by criminal justice system. While racism is the root cause of most the disparities minorities face, it has become so normalize that it has become a part of our daily lives to the point where it is not viewed as racism, but just the way things are. If we look at where the criminal justice system really began to take off, you will see it was around the time when slavery ended. Drastic laws where set specifically for African American to strip them of the few rights they had and to reinstate a new form of slavery under the disguise of law and order. Even Policing in America started in the form of slave patrols and the barrier between white folks and black
