Is It Really All About Race Essay - 1142 Words

As an American, I have noticed that race is a contributing factor to how the justice system treats many Americans. For example â€Å"African Americans are arrested for drug offenses at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites† according to a 2009 report on disparity in drug arrests by Human Rights Watch. This semester I want to further examine how all races, White,†(A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa)†Black or African American, â€Å"(A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa)†American Indian or Alaska Native,† (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America)†Asian,†(A person having origins in any of†¦show more content†¦It can ruin a person’s reputation, and it occurs more often to certain races like Blacks and Hispanics. Growing up as an African American child I was never affected by racial discrimination. I grew in up the suburbs of south Florida and had many friends of all races. As a child, I was raised to judge people by who they are and what they do rather than on the color of their skin. However, when I moved and began high school in a different state I started to notice that many of the students, professors, and even local officers were, for lack of a better word, racist to not only African-Americans but also Hispanics and Middle Easterners. One example of this is the Trayvon Martin case where in the end a man who was clearly guilty was acquitted because of the fact that the suspect who he killed, Trayvon, might have been a â€Å"17 year old undisciplined punk thug† who was putting Zimmerman’s life in â€Å"danger†(Qtd from Sundance). It hurt me to see that as a world we have not learned from our past mistakes. 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