Justice Is Unfair

Justice can be defined by different people in various ways. Being in law enforcement and seeing all races being placed on probation for different reasons is normal. Being in law enforcement and seeing a certain race group being placed on a lengthy sentence term for a particular crime and seeing seeing a certain race group being placed on a shorter term for the same exact offense is actually normal as well. Unfair but very normal even in the year of 2016. While this may seem unfair to the African American race, it is the norm in today 's America and has been the struggle in the African American community since the end of slavery times. During slavery people of color were misplaced from their homeland of Africa and forced to work under harsh …show more content…
It may appear that Caucasians are afraid of Blacks and Hispanics, but more so of blacks. This could very much be the reason why blacks are held in the prison system longer and at an alarming rate than those of different races. One major debate that has been going on since the early 90 's has been the crack and cocaine epidemic. Former president George W. Bush Sr. based his campaign off the crack vs. cocaine battle causing a rise in crackdowns in the Black communities with the drug crack being the motivation to send more Blacks to prison and misplaced from their families than ever before. The difference between the two is, cocaine is basically not cheaply made as crack is. Crack is cheaper to buy compared to cocaine. Crack is more known to be placed in the black communities and cocaine is more known to be placed in the white communities. Being in possession of crack individuals are given a much lengthy sentence term in prison compared to being in possession of cocaine. This has been an issue with many political figures since George Bush Sr. placed it in America 's forefront in the 90 's. It is preposterous to believe that crack is more dangerous to the community than cocaine being that it gives the substance abuser the same effect when