h
pixel skylines
ojovivo
Keni
RMH
No title available
Cosmic Funnies
Cosimo Galluzzi
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
todays bird
roma★
Interview Vampire Daily
Game Changer & Make Some Noise
Show & Tell
almost home
Sweet Seals For You, Always
No title available
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
Fai_Ryy
Cookie Run:Kingdom Official!
seen from Australia
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Thailand
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from Germany
seen from Spain
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Argentina
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
@floresm19-blog
Present day - Race, Crime, and Punishment
Though the Jim Crow era ended and the Civil Rights Movement began, there were still issues dealing with race. Blacks were and are still getting discriminated against because of their skin color and white supremacy still existing.
We’ve all heard the phrase “the slaves were freed,” but “freedom” is used loosely and objectively. After emancipation, there was segregation and Jim Crow. After that came the systems we still employ today ― systems that were literally designed to subvert the progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and keep Jim Crow alive even after it was outlawed. I’ll say it again: These systems are still in place today. They take the form of discriminatory practices in housing, education, employment, health care and law enforcement, as well as for-profit prisons and the mass incarceration of people of color. The United States accounts for 5 percent of the global population ― and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Moreover, black people make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population but nearly 40 percent of our prisoners. Our prison system has been manipulated by white supremacist values until it has become little more than slavery by a different name. If you’re still not convinced, consider the fact that the United States government has also taken little corrective action to right the wrongs committed against Native Americans. As of 2007, the Native population owns just 2 percent of the land in the U.S. ― land they had inhabited for centuries before white men took it from them. Our government was sterilizing Native women against their will as recently as the 1970s ― meaning that there are Native women alive today who were victimized by this cruel practice. Government-run schools that serve Native children are grievously underfunded, with the worst achievement and graduation rates of any subgroup in the country. And need I mention the Dakota Access Pipeline? Even the simple American act of voting is a right that is, sadly, not guaranteed for minorities. Redistricting practices and discriminatory voter ID laws ensure that black and Latino citizens face more obstacles getting to the polls than white people. And new laws keep surfacing, making it ever more difficult. As recently as 2014, some counties with high Native American populations have enforced a mail-in English-language ballot system only, disenfranchising those with language barriers and limited access to mail. What it boils down to is that white people have established a system that sets minorities up for failure. We let them participate in the marathon, but we make them start miles behind, then blame them for not being able to keep up. This is white supremacy. This ― us, here, now ― is what it looks like. So while a group of angry white men wielding torches and shouting Nazi slogans admittedly isn’t something we see every day ― at least not yet ― it originates from the same place as every other racist micro- and macro-aggression taking place today. White supremacy is the thread that holds all these behaviors and beliefs together. It’s the root of the problem, and if we don’t see it, we’re not paying attention.
3 Reasons Why #ThisIsNotUs Is Problematic by Ali Owens (via navigatethestream)
Why is this so may you ask… America is still the same as the history that has shaped it to be the country it is. The only difference is that in theory, racism has gone unnoticed and hidden from the public and a new concept of color blindness. The history that his built America has been somewhat erased and forgotten, but the same principles and believes many whites had years ago, are the same one’s surrounding our country today.
The green should have header of “Mass Incarceration”
The evolution of racism has now formed itself into the racist criminal justice system we have today. People of color continue to have to fight against the constant systematic oppression that they face. Though people of color are no longer being lynched and attacked by just any white person in the streets, they face a different problem. This is one within the criminal justice system.
Today, people of color are more likely to be incarcerated or serve jail time for minor offenses. This had lead to mass incarceration because more people of color are being locked up, and more likely to plead guilty for offenses they have not committed. This happens because the criminal justice system is unfair and favors whites. When a person of color has committed a crime or is arrested for being accused of a crime, they are detained and are less likely to be able to pay for their bail. This then leads to them waiting for their trial and also spending time in jail. People of color are also more likely to have public defenders because of financial problems and therefore they will likely plead guilty for a lesser sentence, which is advised by their public defender. Public defenders are great because they serve a lot of people who would not be able to afford a private attorney, but that also means that they are overloaded with cases. They are not able to put a lot of time and effort into every case they are assigned, therefore resulting for more people to be in the system. At the same time, in their trials they are more likely to get a jury that consists of all white individuals. Individuals who are not able to put themselves in the shoes a person of color wears. Ultimately leading the jury to vote against their favor.
This Is America by Phresh Laundry (@thatlaundry)
I don't get why black people continue to go on about slavery and Jim Crow. They're long since over, who cares?
Oooh! Oooh! I know this one!
Here’s what the last 400 years look like when you arrange them in a graph.
Jim Crow only ended about 50 years ago. 50 years is not a long time. My father was a year old then. And even if you managed to trick yourself into thinking it was a long time ago, today’s era of civil rights hasn’t even reached half the length of the Jim Crow era, let alone slavery.
And racism didn’t just magically end in 1965. Read any news article that includes the words “Black Man” and “Police” and you’ll see that. And when it’s mapped out for you, you can see why it didn’t just end.
Think about it: The most vocal (and bitchy) generation are the Baby Boomers, who were born between 1946 and 1964. They were born and grew up in a time when casual racism was not only considered normal, but legal. And they’re still around and still as stubborn and obnoxious as they can possibly be. The people who benefited from Jim Crow are still around and still not happy that it’s gone. These generations haven’t just faded away, they’re still here and still trying to turn back societal progress.
Slavery and Jim Crow won’t be “long since over” until the generation that grew up in it AND the generations they raised are dead and the only first-hand memory is of a time without either of those things. Which means this won’t count as “long since over” until Generation Z has their own grandkids and then dies, when that yellow bar eclipses the other two.
And that’s assuming we don’t slide backwards downhill.
Until then, it’s not “long since over.” It’s a recent crime, the perpetrators of which are still alive and walking around today.
Perspective, asshole.
As mentioned throughout the previous blog posts, America still continues to have an unfair and unequal country for people of color. An huge issue, among many others existing, is capital punishment. How can the criminal justice system have a large issue for their sentencing options? That is because instead of justice being the prime objective of a case of a person of color, the skin of their color and the stereotypes and mindsets of white people, continue to overpower and are taken into consideration.
The death penalty is a legal form of killing by a state as a form of punishment for a crime. It is very controversial whether or not states should have the power to end the life of an individual, and not every state in the United States allow that form of conviction for a crime. Many states in the South choose to perform this form of punishment for a crime, which many can see an overlap of history. The death penalty is often seen as lynchings were. That is because it is affecting and taking the lives of many people of color, only instead it is legal and “moral” due to it creating justice. When a person is sentenced to the death penalty, they are often on death row for a while, and they have to await their turn to be executed. While the execution happens, there are witnesses viewing the death of the individual, similar to how lynchings occurred where people gathered together to view a person die.
People are able to witness a person get executed.
“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
