Intolerance And Inequality In America

Professor Mi’chelle Bonnette
English 1301
18, November, 2015

How much longer must intolerance and inequality continue before we will start to change? We live in a society where laws and consequences aren’t truly based on how bad or wrong a crime is, but rather the type of race or ethnicity of who committed it. The law for nearly the first two hundred years of our country's existence has allowed the mistreatment and unfairness of human’s beings just because of race. People refuse to see immigration as a chance and opportunity for people to be able to live a better life, and instead view it as a threat that harms the nation because of their different color skin or beliefs and values, causing discrimination towards these people. Unfortunately,
The law has the mindset of someone who thinks that because one African American stole something, another one must do so as well. However, that is not true and unfair, it is wrong to judge one person because of what someone else did. The terrorist group Isis’s attack on France is an example of this, as a result of this American states are refusing to let any more refugees inside. They believe that because one of their kind has already done the damage, they are now all dangerous but they are wrong, they are only trying to escape from the fighting and corruption of their homeland to be safe. It’s unfair to see and treat people this way, they cannot be held against something they didn’t have anything to do with. Ever since the tragedy of 911 there have been many stereotypes towards the Muslim people. It was an evil act by the terrorist group, but many innocent people with the same religion beliefs as them were now also described as dangerous. Not too long ago this year, Ahmed Mohamed a 14 year old boy had brought an amazing clock that he had built to school to show his teachers. When he showed it to them the first thing they said was “it looks like a bomb”. He repeatedly had told them it wasn’t a bomb and that it only a project he had invented, however the police officers still handcuffed him. According to BIGLAWNewsLine, one of the officers even quoted “yup, that’s who I thought it was” when
The unequal treatment of minorities in our criminal justice system manifests itself in a mushrooming prison population that includes mainly African Americans and Hispanics. They say everyone is treated equally but African Americans comprise 12% of the population in the United States, and more than 50% of them are currently incarcerated in United States prisons according to the Acedemia.edu website information on criminal justice discrimination. As of January 2013, almost 2.3 million Americans were incarcerated. Out of those people most in jails and prisons were disproportionately Latinos or African-American. This shows and justifies evidence of racial bias in the criminal justice system. For example, in Baltimore, African American drivers are discriminately stopped because they are believed to be more likely to be engage in more serious criminal activity than whites, and this is happens in other many different places as well. There have been many unfortunate events that are believed were caused because of racial discrimination, one of them being the shooting in Ferguson. Michael Brown was an African American that was shot and killed on November 2014 while being unarmed. He was killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson, the ST Louis county prosecutor announced that a grand jury decided not to indict the officer. The people were furious with this