Racial Equality Against African Americans

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We still need to work on racial equality against African-Americans, because in our society today many blacks suffer of discrimination. In the U.S. today we made changes in racial equality against blacks but not enough for all blacks to be satisfied. Eighty-six percent of the African-Americans say that facing racial equality has achieved in being better than the past. Now in our society blacks still aren't being treated as well as whites by the criminal justice system. There’s a better chance for the blacks to live in a federal household the whites. Blacks say that they’re getting treated unfairly.
Most of the blacks say that they still need more change in order for the racial equality to be achieved, but they made a successful change

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