argument has been made that racial discrimination is no longer a pressing issue in American society.[1] It has further been argued that the Constitution protects all citizens, and race has no weight in the American criminal justice system.[2] While the United States Constitution guarantees equal treatment of all citizens, regardless of race, racism still exists in the American law enforcement and criminal justice systems. In this era with the end of official institutional racism, there has been a corresponding
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incarceration rates reveal that young African American men are prosecuted and imprisoned at higher rates than their Non-Hispanic White counterparts. Although the total number of incarcerations by race does not vary significantly, the age of prisoners by race is meaningful. In December 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice statistics for sentenced male prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction totaled 1,537,415. Broken down by race, African American lacks totaled 555,300 prisoners with Whites
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One of the reasons that America is so often praised is because of its compulsory education system, and push for equality despite one’s race or religion. But what is the point of giving education for everyone, if students of a certain race fail or pass standardized tests more consistently than others. Is it a problem with the education, the teacher, or the student? Last year, Hispanic and African American high school students scored at substantially lower rates than Asian and White students on the
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To the Editor: You might think the American justice system should be exactly that, just. However that is not always the case in the USA today. African-American people are regurlarly being discriminated by the state somply because of their descent. In recent years it has been shown time and time again that the American judges and juries are not as blind to your heritage and your social status as one might have hoped. If you are a poor african american you are more likely to be convicted of a fellony
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percent of Native American students who graduated in 2004 attended college right after high school, and of these students, only 39 percent had completed a bachelor’s degree by 2010” (Klein). Statistics show that there is a wide gap in education between White Americans and Native Americans. The American government could be responsible for the reason that Native American students are falling behind their white counterparts. America destroyed the Native American’s education system by stripping them
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Are African American Males Victims of the Criminal Justice System? Institution Tutor Name Date Table of Contents Chapter One 3 Chapter One Introduction The United States of America is credited to have the largest criminal justice framework globally, as at 2011, seven million people were under various programs within correctional facilities and programs. Among these people, 2.2 million were incarcerated in federal, state as well as local correctional facilities. Such incarceration
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Is the justice system in America biased against African Americans? I honestly think that the justice system in America is racially biased. The way society is today tells us that it’s racially biased because you have more African American people getting killed and more going to jail more than the whites. Some people may not see anything wrong with this but some of us do. People of the world, it’s time to open our eyes. Think back to the Trayvon Martin case when Zimmerman shot him. Zimmerman went
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There is no denial that the criminal justice system in failing the African-American community, or handing them stricter punishments than needed. Glenn C. Loury revealed in his article An American Tragedy: The legacy of slavery lingers in our cities' ghettos that “Nor do serious people deny that the crime, drug addiction, family breakdown, unemployment, poor school performance, welfare dependency, and general decay in these communities” (1998). Recently the organizations and campaigns of “Black Lives
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American History II The American System was a mercantilist financial plan that played a leading role in the American policy in the first half of the 19th century. A strategy to unify and strengthen America, the American System, was created by a number of leading politicians and the Democratic-Republican Party (Kaufman, 1998). The system was a fresh form of federalism, which comprised of a high tariff of securing the American industries. Derived from the “American School”, the plan incorporated
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Unification and Integration in the American Political System A serious problem among Latinos in America is finding a similarity among the many Latino cultures residing within the United States, an issue that can be better understood looking at the existing literature of the Latino’s community and political condition in order to explain their ability and opportunity to be incorporated into the American political system. The one constant for the Latino culture is similarity of language; the one
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