Racism In African American Society

Change is an inevitable fact of the social development. But longing change only for oneself or kind and showing contempt for others life only gives rise to racism. It is simply unjust for somebody to live a superfluous life while the minorities live in poverty, unjust and slighting. The history of racism in the United Stated dates back to the era of Colonization when the Native Americans were chased, killed, relocated and forcefully assimilated to the European culture and practices of the settlers. The enactment of slavery of the black Africans by the White Caucasians and preaching of white Caucasians being the superior race only added oil to the burning furnace of prejudice and bigotry. World War II promised to be "Double V", victory against fascism outside US and against race at home, to all the African Americans.

The various factors within the society especially the …show more content…
It is the system that criminalizes them in the early years and limits them their opportunities and sparkles resistance. The lives of these men are criminalized and pipelined through the criminal system in the early age and as such gives rise to the “culture of poverty”. The blacks and Latino youths are always viewed at thieves, thugs, or rats in the perfect white society.

African Americans and Hispanic youths in US experience the horrific “ Social Death”. “Social Death” is a systematic process in youths are over policed, socially rejected, isolated and

prevented form engaging in social relations and comes in the form of punishment and criminalization at the very early age. The police and the judicial system have come to symbolize white power, white racism and white repression. This is reinforced among African Americans and the Latinos by the existence of the police brutality in the name of justice and protection. A “double standard” of policing – one for the whites and one for Blacks and Latinos – still