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Summary Of Stuff White People Know By Christopher Lebron

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In the following journals “The agony of a racial Democracy by Christopher Lebron,” “Stuff white people know by Mark Reinhardt,” and Trayvon Martin, intersectionality and the politics of Disgust by Ange-Marie Hancock” was about the Trayvon Martin case which a young black male who was murdered by George Zimmerman who was a neighborhood watch volunteer. These journals were discussing the contemporary era of young black, black people and the country dealing with the basic freedom that black get due to the white supremacy that are in the laws, politics and the history of this country. How Trayvon Martin death was an example of prejudice, injustice, race bias, white privilege, racial profiling and the old story of this country. The reason why Trayvon Martin death is an example of these following words because his death …show more content…

That lead to racial tension and prejudice in American since this country was made from the painful history of slavery, segregation and the old concepts of racial order that blacks and white have their place in society. Therefore, for Trayvon Martin family living in a gated community not in the ghetto where most white people think that all Blacks live in this type of community wearing a hoodie with a bag of skittle in his pocket, but to a white man looks like a gun made Zimmerman think he has the right to murder this young man without no evidences that he was dangerous, violence or suspicious. With the Trayvon Martin case was an example of injustice since the justice system has always been a race relations with blacks have been treating harshly as suspects and offenders but never as victims. The justice system was created from white supremacy and black inferiority from slavery so the system still has the disadvantage for blacks and still use some of the slave codes, blacks’ codes and Jim crow

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