Trayvon Martin Case

In our society today, we can see how a majority of the protection of the law is biased towards Whites rather than Blacks. This can be seen through the recent Trayvon Martin shooting that occurred in 2012. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African-American male who was walking back from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida, where he purchased a pack of Skittles candy and an iced tea. Zimmerman, a white police officer, shot Martin dead on the basis that Martin was carrying a weapon. The shot from the office killed Martin and Zimmerman justified his actions by claiming it was an act of self-defense. This is an example of a modern form of injustice similar to what happened in 1964 with the mass lynching which started by the fact that Roger stabbed

One incident Laura Wexler recalls, was when she said, "A local jury found thirty--one white men charged with lynching a black man named Willie Earle not guilty even though twenty-six of those men who had admitted to the FBI that they've been members of the lynch mob"(Wexler, pg. 202). This showed that even agents of the law and the law per se in the past legitimizes racism against African Americans. This basically means that neither the FBI nor the American government did anything enforce a stop to the fighting. In other words, the political justice system was biased towards the White community and treated the Black community as inferior. Studies done by The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) prove that all through the late nineteenth-century racial strain developed all through the United States. A greater amount of this pressure was perceptible in the Southern parts of the United States. In the South, individuals accused their financial issues on the recently liberated slaves that lived around them. Lynching’s were turning into a common method for settling a portion of the outrage felt by Whites related to the freedom of Blacks. The NAACP stated that “[f]rom 1882-1968, 4,743 lynching’s happened in the United States. Of these individuals that were lynched 3,446 were Black. The Blacks lynched represented 72.7% of the general population lynched. These numbers appear to be massive, yet it is realized that not the greater part of the lynching’s was ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 individuals lynched only 1,297 white individuals were lynched, only 27.3% of the total population while most individuals lynched are all Black. Moreover, a significant number of the whites lynched were sentenced to it due to helping in the dark or being