The American culture uses class, gender, and race to define one and another. However racism is one of the leading factors of how and who has come out on top in today's society. So grasping a better understanding of racism is key in understanding American culture. The concept of racism is classifying one and another and can be seen as misleading as far in the equality of human life. Defining someone by their race can be discriminatory, but it can also disregard common sense. So how did we get to this point in American culture and how have we not advance through this period of discrimination. Every sense the slave trade started in the 15th century. Our understanding racial equality in Americas ethnically diverse population that includes White
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While it is true that the economic opportunity someone has will affect their decisions, this argument doesn’t fully explain the real reason of why the rates are higher. To fully understand the reason why one must look back on America’s history and how African Americans were treated. Another reason racialized mass incarceration takes place is because of the high rates of poverty and unemployment African American communities, especially those with low-education and low income. Ghettos have been associated with the problem of social disorganization and crime, the ghettos have created a establishment for drugs and crime. blacks are almost 34% involved in drug-related arrests, though only 14% of those are among regular illegal drug users. African Americans are discriminated by the legal system. This is proven in the article To Tackle our mass Incarceration Problem let’s start at the Local Level, author Laurie Garduque describes that “Racial and ethnic disparities in jail population can be found in local justice systems across the country. While African-Americans and Latinos make up 30 percent of Americas, they comprise 51 percent of the U.S. jail population”(Garduque 2). The primary cause is unequal protection by the law and unequal enforcement of it. Unequal …show more content…
Lynchings most frequently targeted African American men in the south. However lynchings started occurring in the north after the great migration. Lynchings promoted white supremacy, black powerlessness, and became a common souvenir in America culture. Not only were African American men hung, but they were also commonly burned and discriminated after death. Large mobs and hundreds of people would participate in these lynchings. Not only were lynchings common in the south, but also in the Midwest with Native Americans. Lynchings allowed conservative democrats to scare and continue the rule over the African American communities even after reconstruction. These common acts against freed slaves created the Jim Crow Law which were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Jim Crow laws has had a major, influence on the United States based on how much harm than good it did during its time. These laws were in favor of white people more than black in state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. This in turn caused more harm than good because black people had so many restrictions on what the can do while living in the US. These laws also primitive most black people because they could not eat at the same restaurants, use the same railroads or bus stations or even restrooms. Black people were, restricted to only using what was available
While it is true that the economic opportunity someone has will affect their decisions, this argument doesn’t fully explain the real reason of why the rates are higher. To fully understand the reason why one must look back on America’s history and how African Americans were treated. Another reason racialized mass incarceration takes place is because of the high rates of poverty and unemployment African American communities, especially those with low-education and low income. Ghettos have been associated with the problem of social disorganization and crime, the ghettos have created a establishment for drugs and crime. blacks are almost 34% involved in drug-related arrests, though only 14% of those are among regular illegal drug users. African Americans are discriminated by the legal system. This is proven in the article To Tackle our mass Incarceration Problem let’s start at the Local Level, author Laurie Garduque describes that “Racial and ethnic disparities in jail population can be found in local justice systems across the country. While African-Americans and Latinos make up 30 percent of Americas, they comprise 51 percent of the U.S. jail population”(Garduque 2). The primary cause is unequal protection by the law and unequal enforcement of it. Unequal …show more content…
Lynchings most frequently targeted African American men in the south. However lynchings started occurring in the north after the great migration. Lynchings promoted white supremacy, black powerlessness, and became a common souvenir in America culture. Not only were African American men hung, but they were also commonly burned and discriminated after death. Large mobs and hundreds of people would participate in these lynchings. Not only were lynchings common in the south, but also in the Midwest with Native Americans. Lynchings allowed conservative democrats to scare and continue the rule over the African American communities even after reconstruction. These common acts against freed slaves created the Jim Crow Law which were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Jim Crow laws has had a major, influence on the United States based on how much harm than good it did during its time. These laws were in favor of white people more than black in state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. This in turn caused more harm than good because black people had so many restrictions on what the can do while living in the US. These laws also primitive most black people because they could not eat at the same restaurants, use the same railroads or bus stations or even restrooms. Black people were, restricted to only using what was available