Free Argumentative Essays-Has America Overcome?

Has America Overcome? America will not overcome. Not without first excepting the fact that it’s not as free as it’s slogan reads. It’s easy to want to dismiss the past as the past and claim that all it is is history but that does not excuse the fact that racism is alive and well in America today. America is in denial. “I don’t see color” and “It’s not about race” are the first phrases heard when a racial issue presents itself and although they sound like harmless, well-meaning words they continue to suppress the black voice in America. When 18 year old Mike Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, MI earlier last year the masses came together to mourn for the loss of child. However, for every outpouring of sympathy, there was a racist comment to match it. Everyone across the nation had something to say about this small town boy’s death.
It’s a wonderful idea fought for by millions, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but can it ever truly be achieved? Maybe not, but that shouldn’t stop the human race from pushing forward. The greatest force holding this goal at bay is racial bias. One of the easiest ways to see an example of this bias is by simply looking at the justice system. Last December National Guard Sgt. Valerie Deant visited the North Miami Beach police shooting range to discover that the local police were adopting mug shots of young black men as target practice, one being a picture of her brother. To see the men and women who are responsible for protecting the citizens of this nation, exploiting their own people for target practice is unsettling. How can officers spend their training aiming a gun at African American men and be expected to be unbiased on the street? They can’t, it instills a bias that leaves African Americans targets for racial stereotyping and police brutality, as was so with Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and dozens of other victims of this unjust