Commentary On Minority's Rage By Laurie Halse Anderson

Prominent community members frequently encouraged and even participated in lynch mobs,” the resentment of African Americans were .The lynching mobs would cut off body parts of the victim’s body, the dismembered parts would either be kept or sold as souvenirs. During this time, many black men were accused of raping white females, so as punishment they would be lynched. The lynching of the black rapist would be considered a civil action. The lynching of black bodies has left many African Americans mental scarred since they have to fear for the lives of their families and themselves.

This is great, and now we are completely equal, therefore this amendment did help in equality a little. It lead to many great things ' afterword. When the African Americans voted, the white people treated them like they were normal, unlike what they used to do. Now they have more people in state legislatures and Congress, so they will have more ideas. Even after the amendment was passed people still did discriminate.

In society this social power is usually seen as a male attribute. Petrocelli’s quote “Another major motivation which surfaced in our interviews was the desire to ‘get huge.’” (Petrocelli 758) displays another reason men feel pressured by social standards, if they are not huge they are not a “true” man. These quotes seem to be polar opposites yet that is not the case, Lorber’s quote sets the groundwork for Petrocelli’s findings. Driving gives a person social power normally a man will drive whether he is the better driver or not.

Colin Kaepernick 's right to protest is not being used in the most effective manner it could be. He is kneeling during the National Anthem, which is highly disrespectful to the men and women who risk their lives to give him his right to protest. He is protesting minorities are under siege in the United States and are not granted the same opportunities as non-minority groups. The recent police shootings on African Americans specifically is Kaepernick 's main protest against. All U.S. citizens are effected by this protest because it is so controversial, it could start a race war on a National Level that can be prevented.

Moreover, Gangs are a bad influence towards people. Some people look towards gang members. Gang members should not be role models towards people because they do criminal activities. We should hire more policemen because it 's too many death behind gang

While such mistreatment should not be prohibited, many law enforcement officers continue to apply force when unneeded. The Rodney King Riots, which demonstrated its excessive brutality towards an unarmed black victim, proves the lack of justification for such an action. Their abuse became known for its discrimination towards these racial communities, which continued to promote society’s civil unrest, through public rioting and retaliation towards the LAPD. As time progressed, police abuse during the 70s and 80s, became prevalent during the rise of punk rock and gang violence. The daily interference of law enforcement contributed to the long-term negative publicity by punk bands, such as Black Flag, as well as the daily shootings between the Crips and Bloods.

These types of cultural differences and viewpoints or prejudices continue to dominate the social media platforms thus distracting an objective conversation on the societal wrongs that continue to further create cultural divisions in our society. Accordingly, the conversations about being a white American with all the privileges and being a black American who keeps fighting for rights is continually perpetuated on social media thus making the United States of America’s unity seem a fallacy. Okwonga (2013), in his audio named the “First Law of Privilege” says, “That what to you is daily strife is, to them, a mere debate”. This summary of the ideas in this poem summarizes the perceived differences between the black Americans and the white Americans. In the presentation of the poem, Okwonga notes so long as something does not directly affect you,

For millions of Americans, the presents of a uniformed police officer bring comfort and assurance that order in being kept amongst our society. For others, the feeling of being stopped because they look or act a certain way bring frustration and fear amongst minorities. Criminal profiling is a high-profile issue facing law enforcement, due to criticisms about how profiling’s were carried out. Difference in police exists. Whether profiling is the exception or the rule, it is highly debated across the United States.

Racial profiling has had great effects on African American communities all over the US. Victims of racial profiling incidents and people who have witnessed have begun to fear and hate the police when they should be trusting that they are there to keep them safe. Many incidents have occured in the US where unarmed black individuals have been brutally killed by the hands of white police or have been pulled over when driving because they have commited the crime of “driving while black”, which in today's world has become something that African Americans have to fear because of the likeliness of them being pulled over by police, because of their racial bias towards them. “Driving while black” is something that black families tell their kids to be careful of at a young age because of their own experiences with police. In between 2007-2010, people of colored skin accounted for 75 percent of the people stopped by Boston police and 65 percent of them were black in a city whose population was made up of 25 percent African Americans at that time.

The United states and their police forces are doing the best they can to help keep the peace, but from bad publicity and less community policing they can barely hold on. Also anti-police movements of citizens who disagree with the force officer's use during arrests makes the officer's concern for safety even greater. However,the media will only report the negative sides of police and their duties they do everyday. Next the police are targeted by people and have been in the 60s and more recently in the past couple months.

To begin, much of the Latino population in the United States are either in jail or living in unsafe neighborhoods. With the stereotypes given to minorities by those in an American society; minorities are likelier to be looked at suspiciously. Minorities are labeled, and in the case of Latinos they are often stopped and frisked unfairly. Police who feel the need to stop a hispanic person in their own neighborhood just help enforce these stereotypes. With this said, it is no question as to why: white Latino men are much more likely than White men, but only half as likely as Black men, to serve time in prison.

Recently in American politics, the Black Lives Matter movement has been publicized at large. There is a lot of controversy around BLM because many people believe that it is a hate group targeting all police officials and white citizens. The group’s goal is to address a problem in America, like racial profiling, asking why people who are white that shoot innocent church goers are arrested and taken into custody while a black teenager jaywalking across the street is shot, and racism in the everyday part of their lives. Black Lives Matter wants to open the eyes of people who do not see a problem and hopefully fix a broken system. Racism is a touchy subject for many people because they do not believe racism is as detrimental to society since

It would be interesting to see those numbers to compare as well. This information would certainly give you a better picture of the correlation between population and home ownership. Also it seemed like white category was much more even in percentage range

The case of Eric Garner was also a major leading case for the use of dash cameras in the police as many of the citizens didn’t want more of the abused to happen again. There was many protest from people for a change. They wanted to see that the police were really changing their ways from their prejudice. The capacity to use the cameras in a crime scenes are reliable to use for evidence. Not only a camera allows the viewer to see the crime being done it also uncovers the manipulation that the criminal is trying to cover for his crime.

The policemen then get hate because they are “racial profiling”. This should not be happening. Policemen should not be getting hate because they are doing their job. If that part of town has more crime but just happened to have more minority figures in it should it be considered racial profiling? No.