Definitely agree that racial and ethnic minorities have been treated unfairly by the criminal justice system. While repeating both color-blind and blinded by color multiple times, it has come to my attention that our criminal justice system is blinded by color. Examples of these actions are the stop and frisk, and the police brutality against the minorities, which automatically assumes the stereotypes of racial and ethnic minorities.
In “The color of skin, is the color of crime” by Luis Rodriguez he states many stereotype about men. An example of this is...“men are unemployed, hanging out on the street corners, stealing, fighting, and going to prison (Rodriguez, p. 38.)” Men, especially african americans and latinos are always being stopped by police officers or are being killed by them, while white americans are not looked at in that way. An article that proves this is “Black men nearly 3 times as likely to die from police use of force” by Jacqueline Howard. Howards proves that black and latino men are being killed “2.8 and 1.7 times higher” by the people who say they protect us (Howard, 2016.) Another example that proves the wrong of assumptions is “White
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She committed this crime to prevent any harm that was going to be done to her. It was then stated by AJ Willingham, CNN that she would be life sentenced with parole but she would get that chance at the age of 69 years old ( Willingham, 2017). But when it comes to a white teen male athlete, Eli Meixler states that Brock Turner (the athlete) “served three months in jail for sexual assault, is looking for a retrial ( Meixler, 2017).” Where is the retrial for Ms.Brown? She get parole at the age of 69 but Mr. Turner who was found guilty of three felony cases was only sentenced six months ( Meixler,