Black Men vs White Men and the Police After reading wide range of articles in which police officers and the media are differently treating African American men, the implication of this situation calls for a subtle question that appears to either set tempers ablaze or even engender vacuums of silence in a room. African American men are dealt with differently in contrast to Caucasian men. Why is the treatment different? Is the law protecting only one part of Americans and surprisingly, not the other? Nowadays, there is a lot going on in the media, the lives of African American men are being constantly wasted everyday due to the so-called minor incidents like, theft, disturbance, unwarranted traffic delay, among others. In fact, whenever
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So, I challenged him by asking him why he decided to steal from the store. His response was quite hilarious; “people do it all the time”. I replied; “what if you get caught”. He reacted by saying “they are not going to do anything, they will just let me go”. At that point, I knew that the answer would have been different if he was an African American. The point I am trying to make here is that in every race, there are bad and good people, but why do African American men suffer vehemently for the same unlawful …show more content…
The police ridicules, beats and abuse him because the color of his skin is black. For example, Michael Vick (former player of the Philadelphia Eagles) had some dogs fighting in his backyard. He was sent to years in prison and still, the media portrayed him as a monster. Contrastingly, when Adam Lanza killed 26 people including 20 first-graders and six adults, he was delineated as a good kid who only had some troubles in his life. In fact, the media was quick to claim that he had mental illness. What an irony of circumstances! I am of the strong belief that it 's not fair how African American men are being
So, I challenged him by asking him why he decided to steal from the store. His response was quite hilarious; “people do it all the time”. I replied; “what if you get caught”. He reacted by saying “they are not going to do anything, they will just let me go”. At that point, I knew that the answer would have been different if he was an African American. The point I am trying to make here is that in every race, there are bad and good people, but why do African American men suffer vehemently for the same unlawful …show more content…
The police ridicules, beats and abuse him because the color of his skin is black. For example, Michael Vick (former player of the Philadelphia Eagles) had some dogs fighting in his backyard. He was sent to years in prison and still, the media portrayed him as a monster. Contrastingly, when Adam Lanza killed 26 people including 20 first-graders and six adults, he was delineated as a good kid who only had some troubles in his life. In fact, the media was quick to claim that he had mental illness. What an irony of circumstances! I am of the strong belief that it 's not fair how African American men are being