Les Misérables

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MTI is approved by the United States Department of Education to participate in the Federal Financial Aid Program. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 834 • July 11 -24, 2013 3 GUEST COMMENTARY by John W. Whitehead [email protected] The Myth of a Post-Racial America “How can you thank a man for giving you what’s Voting Rights Act, legislation enacted during The criminal-justice system. The starkest • Only 14 percent of drug users are black, already yours? How then can you thank him for the Civil Rights Era that was critical to the example of racial discrimination in America but blacks constitute 37 percent of those giving you only part of what’s already yours? You enfranchisement of black Americans living in today is the treatment of blacks and other arrested for drug crimes. haven’t even made progress, if what’s being given the Jim Crow South. Writing for the majority, minorities in the criminal-justice system. The • Blacks make up 50 percent of state and to you, you should have had already. That’s no Chief Justice Roberts claimed that times had statistics are astounding. Consider that: local inmates imprisoned for drug crimes. progress.” – Malcolm X, 1964 changed since the 1960s, and the section of • There are more blacks in the corrections • Black youth are 10 times as likely as their the law requiring historically racist sections of system today – whether in prison or on white counterparts to be arrested for drug n 1964, the United States was in the throes the country to have changes to their elections probation or parole – than were enslaved in crimes, despite the fact that whites are more of racial conflict. Civil-rights activists were laws vetted by the federal government was 1850. likely to abuse drugs. Ileading black Americans and their white anachronistic. • People of color account for 30 percent of Then you have the proliferation of SWAT- allies in a struggle against institutionalized Superficially, Roberts claims ring true. the total population in America, yet 60 percent team raids used to enforce drug laws and racism, segregation, and disenfranchisement. Obviously Americans have made great strides of the prison population. execute search warrants, sometimes resulting The situation was bleak, activists were being in confronting issues of race since the 1960s. De • Blacks who commit federal crimes on in the deaths of innocent people such as Jose murdered, the government seemed deadlocked jure segregation has been eliminated, minority average receive sentences that are 10 percent Guerena and Aiyana Jones – both of whom on the issue, and many were losing hope. How- groups have greater access to essential goods longer than their white counterparts. were “brown-skinned.” ever, the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the and services, and we have seen what many • One in three black men will see the inside Stop-and-frisk. The New York Police Voting Rights Act set the stage for a positive thought would never happen: the election of a of a prison in his lifetime. Department’s infamous stop-and-frisk policy, transformation in race relations in a country black man to the office of the president. • Blacks and Hispanics are much more likely which involves beat cops targeting citizens that had been plagued by racial tension since its Yet looking past the veil of progress that to face interaction with police officers, are three going about their daily business for pat-downs inception. clouds the vision of well-meaning people who times as likely to be searched during a traffic and interrogations, is primarily directed toward We have yet to live up to that hoped-for believe the issue of racism has been solved, stop, and are four times as likely to be the target black and Latino citizens. The number of transformation. Almost 50 years later, despite we can easily see that there are many policies of the use of police force. stop-and-frisks occurring on the streets of New having made demonstrable progress on the and practices in America that perpetuate the The war on drugs. A good deal of the York has exploded in the past 10 years, jumping race issue, the idea that we live in a “post- inequality of races. The following is a brief disproportionate impact of the corrections from 97,000 in 2002 to nearly 686,000 in 2011. racial” society is simply a myth – a myth that rundown of the many fronts on which America system on blacks and other minorities is due Of all of those stops, only 2 percent result in was given a boost last month when the U.S. continues to fail to live up to its “post-racial” to the government’s relentless, fruitless pursuit Continued On Page 12 Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the ideal. known as the Drug War. 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