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Essay On Racial Disparities

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By Isis Maryam Muhammad
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In my opinion, the most consitiveral is article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. The reason why I believe that article4 is extremely groundbreaking is because black people was in slavery for over four hundred years. Genocides within micro generations. The white man to the black man is the ultimate culture murder to the black race. The white man created the word race blacks before slavery believed in the separation between race and ethnicity. Race is the word used to describe the physical characteristics of one …show more content…

That is that show black Americans that times haven’t changed. According to the (NAACP), African Americans constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population, and have nearly six times the incarceration rate of whites. In year 2013 study showed that black men were much more likely to be arrested and incarcerated than white men, but also found that this disparity disappeared after accounting for self-reported violence and IQ. An August 2013, Sentencing Project report on Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System, submitted to the United Nations, found that one of every three black American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime. The statistics for African-American males shows that one out of three black males will be arrested and sent to prison during their lifetime, and that between the ages of 20 to 34 one out of nine will be in prison. The rate of imprisonment in some portions of the United States is particularly high, with Oklahoma holding the highest overall black incarceration rate and the

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