Americans are guaranteed certain rights such as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... The demographic of white land owning males was only a fraction of the population, causing the representation to be very biased; women, African Americans, young adults and Native Americans were all denied the right to vote. ... A key demographic was still missing even after women, African Americans and Native Americans; young adults still did not have the right to vote. ... (textbook 403) The previous statistics imply that America was not a true representative democracy until 1971; this level of polit...

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African-Americans and Hispanics make up most of the prison population in America. ... This could be the cause of why the American prison population is so populated with minority prisoners. ... In figure 1, it shows the statistics of race that is imprisoned per 100,000 people in the United States in 2010. ... African Americans make up most of the population in the jails today. ... Population (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 210 million whites). ... According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the prison population in the past decade has s...

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African Americans, Hispanics, Caucasians, and Asian Americans are all primary examples of racial groups. Some of these groups are in the majority, mainly meaning the whites, while others are in the definite minority in the United States, such as African Americans. Statistics show drastic differences concerning population percentage between these particular groups. For example, in terms of percentage of total population, in 1990, whites made up 80.3% of the population, while African Americans made up only a mere 12.1%.... With an average salary of under $7,500 a year, high ma...

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