African American Rationalization

The rationalization of many people of color ha lead to discrimination by the police and many other institutions. Historically African Americans have consistently been on the reviving end of this discrimination. Their skin color religion and differences from the colonizers were huge factors in the dehumanization they faced by the colonizers and used to justify their enslavement. African american as well as other racial and religious minorities are faced with prejudice some of which stems from biological determinism which is the idea that all human behavior is predetermined by genetics and those of a racial minority are often endowed with "inferior" genetics causing them to be more prone to crime. The research to prove this theory was very inconsistent