A Short Summary Of Race Matters
The sayings ‘crack is wack’ and ‘crack babies’ has came for this period of 8 years. During the Reagan presidency life for colored people were terrible. If you were caught with crack cocaine you got a way longer sentence than anyone caught with powdered cocaine. Angela Davis, counterculture activist and from the 13th, explains, “ ...War on drugs was a war on communities of color.. Nearly genocidal in poor communities”. According to Debbie Howlett, “Reagan cut budget of Department of wife, Hillary Clinton called black children “super-predators”. Clinton’s 1994 crime bill changed everything about the judicial system. Prisons expanded police force expanded. In the documentary the 13th, the showing of the prison population is shown. From 1980 there was 513,900
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In the case of Michael Brown, Darren Wilson the police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, Wilson did not get any charges for that case. Chaney notes” ironic how department of justice found discrimination against blacks but not a charge of murder for darren wilson who killed Michael brown. In the essay Race Matters, it states “ 70% of black people say they get treated different than whites when cops are involved” (10). Even in the Trayvon Martin case, George Zimmerman walked out free. George Zimmerman who fatally shot Martin because he felt threaten of a black teenager walking down the street with his hood up minding his own business. Zimmerman walked free because of the florida law, stand your ground law. The stand your ground law is if you feel threaten you can use force to protect others and yourself. Zimmerman felt threatened, simply because Trayvon Martin was a black male. Zimmerman was the one following Martin and did not listen to police dispatch. Zimmerman shot an innocent child because he felt threaten. If every time i felt threaten by people, especially around police officers, i would be in jail for multiple murder
In the case of Michael Brown, Darren Wilson the police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, Wilson did not get any charges for that case. Chaney notes” ironic how department of justice found discrimination against blacks but not a charge of murder for darren wilson who killed Michael brown. In the essay Race Matters, it states “ 70% of black people say they get treated different than whites when cops are involved” (10). Even in the Trayvon Martin case, George Zimmerman walked out free. George Zimmerman who fatally shot Martin because he felt threaten of a black teenager walking down the street with his hood up minding his own business. Zimmerman walked free because of the florida law, stand your ground law. The stand your ground law is if you feel threaten you can use force to protect others and yourself. Zimmerman felt threatened, simply because Trayvon Martin was a black male. Zimmerman was the one following Martin and did not listen to police dispatch. Zimmerman shot an innocent child because he felt threaten. If every time i felt threaten by people, especially around police officers, i would be in jail for multiple murder