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Youseph Anwar AFPRL Midterm Essay Compare and contrast the various laws and codes which were put into place in the American south during the Post Reconstruction era with the perceived treatment of people of African descent in the United States by the American criminal justice system, court decisions and legislation related to voting, and law enforcement officers today, as seen in the news media and social media. In the American South during the Post Reconstruction era, many laws and codes were put into place in order to limit and keep African Americans from progressing in society. Legislation such as The Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and US Supreme Court cases such as Plessy v Ferguson sought to limit the newly freed African Americans in order to maintain control of the South. To this day there is still institutional racism and injustice in the case of black people and there is still room for improvement in the position of black people in society. The Black Codes were passed post Civil …show more content…

There is police brutality and of course institutional racism in America but we can say that there has been some minor improvement due to awareness. Many innocent young black men have been murdered by the police in the past 10 years and it has sparked national outrage. It is interesting to note that it has sparked outrage only because it is being recorded and posted on social media where as before no one would take the side of a black man accusing a white police officer of brutality or murder of a innocent black man. Through news outlets such as Fox News, they portray black people as of a lower class and blame their behavior but never try to understand where they came from and their history in America as slaves and abused people. Social media is bringing to light the issues that black people it is definitely a tool that can be used to bring

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