Black Americans Equal Rights Still Aren't Equal

 


Disregard for civil rights and police abuse continue to undermine the social fabric in black communities, despite hard-won formal legal equality.

Changing from the times have, in fact, been gradual. There’s nothing to indicate, and certainly no defining moment, when racism ceased to be a problem for Blacks and other minorities in America. Coming as far as the nation has in a relatively short amount of time is impressive, given the way racism is embedded in American culture, politics, and education.

Actually, Jim Crow never should have happened. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments should have rectified the legal disparities that affected Black Americans, but it took more than a century for Congress to pass legislation to say “No, we really mean it.” We should wonder about the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence-that all men are created equal is a self-evident truth- why were those amendments necessary in the first place?

The answer is simple: American rhetoric and law have been hypocritical since its inception and nowhere has this been more evident than in legal protections and law enforcement for Black people. Black Americans have, for the entire history of this country, faced a legal system that treats them differently than White citizens. It has become better, sure, but this enduring legal double standard, has not gone anywhere.

Unfortunately, civil rights are only applied as a convenience. They are routinely ignored and violated by police officers; those rights lose all meaning to that population. Mistreatment by authorities-whether official policies like Stop and Frisk, or tolerance of police brutality, corruption, or homicide- corrodes the integrity of the community and is a continuous problem.

Real criminals do not help solve the problem of equality because their intention is to do wrong. They must be punished for their crimes regardless of ethnicity. Black Americans must be careful to avoid trying to defend them when they are wrong. However, punishment should be humane rather than violent and murderous.

Civil Rights are also strongly violated as property rights, tax rates, employment, varying aspects of the economy. Some Blacks are not aware that they are a part of the cycle of victims caught in the web of unfairness.

Foremost, the concern should not be ignored as the protests continue across the entire country to emphasize that Black People Matter with reference to injustices. The points are being made and well-accepted by some Whites; however, die-heart racists and people filled with so much prejudice will continue to fight Blacks until their dying days because they will never believe or accept that Black Americans should be treated as Equals… nor do they believe that Blacks should ever be equal because in their minds and hearts, they believe Blacks are extremely inferior to them.

There is an uphill battle…Black Americans, are you up for the journey?

 

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