Ever since this country was founded, there’s been a giant system of corruption and oppression. Race as an ideology was established in America when settlers came upon different-looking people and decided to pin labels based on impressions and appearances. Nowadays, when people think of slavery, they immediately identify that African-Americans suffered the worst, which I personally think is at least partially accurate. And nowadays, African-Americans are persecuted in terms of being incarcerated at mass volume. Michelle Alexander fiercely points out in ‘The New Jim Crow’ that the criminal justice system in America is basically like a “racial caste system”. She also used the Jim Crow laws to compare the injustice people of color still go through. Obviously no one is going to outright say, “You’re black, you must be a criminal,” but it seems that discrimination in terms of incarceration is at an all-time high. As of 2010, more than two million African Americans are under some kind of punishment: parole, prison, probation. This might falsely comfort those people …show more content…
They talk about his future and how successful he was going to be. And most of us are saddened, as we should be. But why should it matter, in terms of the morality of the crime, whether or not a victim was on their way to a university? Why must we prove that an African-American’s murder was tragic only because he had gotten into college? Even if he had been a dropout or working at a part-time job instead of going to college or just doing life, the event was tragic. I think people are subliminally trained to feel more sympathy when a person of color had something that they had, something like going to college, when, really, that should not harbor extra sympathy. I wish there wasn’t any surprise or judgment when a kid my age is gunned down simply because he’s black and on his way to higher