Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. From this perspective it becomes clear that although race-based jury nullification has many attractive features, it must be modified to be truly beneficial. ... In any policy discussion, formulation of a plausible and effective solution clearly must be based upon the nature of the problem. ... It also found that of all federal death row inmates, 67 percent are Black.11 Despite the fact that these statistics are startling and important, they are insufficient to justify race-based jury nullifi...

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Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System results from the dissimilar treatment of similarly situated people based on race. ... Racist interests trying to create causality between the Civil Rights Movement and an increase in crime is yet another early example of the issue of race being inextricably linked to crime and thus the Criminal Justice System. ... Overall it has been proven multiple times that Whites seemed to go unnoticed when it comes to committing crimes. ... White people who have committed the same crimes somehow avoided to get their crime covered by the media. ... There s...

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The reasoning behind the statement is that within this justice system defendants would rather do a short term sentence for a crime they did not commit rather than take a risk resulting in a long term prison sentence of upwards of twenty five years for the same non committed crime. ... Sentencing Commission (2010) reports that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10% longer than white offenders for the same crimes. ... A poor, uneducated person from a high crime area maybe more easily manipulated and intimidated by the police than an educated white person with ques...

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Lastly and most importantly the racism in societal is the labels we put on people based on their skin color. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... The United States Sentencing Commissions released a report saying that African Americans sentences are 20% longer than white Americans even though they both were convicted with the same crime. ...

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Aside from biased views, there are also many flaws that exist in our justice system, such as the appearance of racial inequality in court, problems of the public defender system such that it is based mostly on the socioeconomic concept, and the involvement of police abuse and misconduct. ... Minorities, specifically blacks, are charged with more serious crimes, have less opportunity to plea-bargain, are convicted more frequently, and receive harsher sentences when compared to whites in similar situations. ... A study by the California Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic B...

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Minor crimes are now ruining the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of African Americans. ... Disenfranchisement, which according to dictionary.com is the term used for prohibiting voting based on the fact that they have been convicted of a felony, were laws that took away many rights of the people. ... Most of the Whites that are going to jail for these crimes either are of lower or lower middle class, and live in poor neighborhoods which mostly consist of African Americans. (89) This clearly shows the racism that is still going on in today's society, and has been turned ...

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While Paul Haggis created the film on an attempt to minimize racial prejudice, the film revealed how the world can be extremely judgmental based on the ethnicity of a person, although discrimination has been a problem for all of the United States. ... Acting on ones hatred can lead to a behavior known as "hate crime". ... This feeling prompts the owner to produce a negative attitude based on the assimilation and stereotypes within the Muslim race. ...

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Like so many other Chinese characters in the American popular imagination, Jian-Wa becomes inextricably linked to the world of crime through his brother's association with a criminal "tong."" American narratives about crime and ethnicity have often dealt with the difficulties of finding the American dream of personal freedom, and the voice over opening for Vanishing Son's credit sequence summarizes this succinctly: Running from oppression, yearning for freedom, he came to America. ...

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America alleges they are a religious based country and their faith resides in God. ... Slavery was a crime against humanity and it still in existence in many ways and forms. ... The government of the United States of America has been instrumental in having pressured the German and Japanese governments into the payments of reparations to the people who suffered and survived the crimes and legacy of slavery endured during World War II. ...

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Smith and Levinson suggest that these disparities could be explained by an implicit racial bias that effects us all, that is, "despite even the best intentions, people automatically classify information in racially based ways" (Smith and Levinson 2012:797). ... These questions include: Should the person be charged with a crime? ... Because poor black Americans tend to live in racially and economically segregated areas, the bias that is putting more people of color behind bars for drug crimes is in turn seriously harming minority communities. ...

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In 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act was passed, it forced law enforcement and ordinary citizens with severe fines if they failed to assist in the capture of runaway slaves when the suspicion could be based only on written claims. ... America's response to the vicious crimes and unfair justice system against African Americans fails to exist. ... For these reason some police officers may feel justified in their actions due to the amount of black on black crime. ...

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Some Americans still treat, consider, and make decisions based upon peoples group, class and race. ... Trump has made about Mexicans, make others believe in all the negative situations Mexicans have been involved such as coming to the country illegally, possibly committed serious crimes etc. and not the positive things they have accomplished in the country, such as adapting to a new culture, helping the country's economy by creating jobs or accepting low income jobs that U.S. ...

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Approximately one million enslaved African Americans were forced from the upper South to the newly conquered territories of the lower South during the first seventy years of America's existence. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, inside homes, in the fields, and in ma...

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The 13th Amendment states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" (US Constitution, Amendment 13, Section 1). ... AA laws are composed of federal and state statutes that are based upon the Constitution of the US. ... These laws and regulations are designed and implemented in an attempt to prevent and in some cases "correct past" inequities and discrimination based upon a person's race, sex, religion, creed, national origi...

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People often refer to IQ tests to determine intelligence but according to the Atlantic, "[people who discriminate racially based off IQ tests] misunderstand the implications of what those tests indicate even when they are credible; and they fail to find the moral, analytic, and political response to the questions of race and intelligence.... Tim Wise, an anti-racism activist, puts it well: "If the 3.3% of blacks who will commit a crime in a given year somehow proves that blacks are dangerous and to be avoided, then why don't the other 97% prove that blacks are non-violent and pe...

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Although a diverse student body may produce some positive qualities around a college campus, it should not be considered a compelling reason to accept certain students over others based on their appearance. ... "By the time these minority students reach college-age, it is already too late for many of them; crime-ridden neighborhoods, poverty and failing K through 12 public schools are a brutal winnowing process"(Cose) Although these issues are very real, they must not be handled in a manner which places certain individuals above others. ...

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The racist illness of the past has trickled down into our generation which is evident in poverty rates as well as conviction rates amongst African Americans in comparison with Caucasians for similar crimes. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ...

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We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... In the case of slavery, his talent with words allows him to shuffle off the guilt of the crime onto a separate entity - the institution itself. ...

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In order to avoid being persecuted for crimes he was innocent of committing, Staples describes his efforts to make himself appear less threatening. ... By using more technical speech and citing other author's works, Staples creates a more intellectual tone in his story which gets his point across, and has a fairly strong emotional base. ...

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