Once a crminial, always a criminal
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Once a crminial, always a criminal
Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after independence, it hasn't gone. US Govt and law-enforcement agencies still view African Americans this way. "... whites may commit crimes, but African Americans are criminals ..." is a quote from the book (Chap 4, p.216 in my EPUB reader) that highlights racial bias.
This bias is reprehensible in my opinion, particularly for a country that prides itself as the world's "greatest" (country), professing the least racism, highest freedom, and so on. Why this strong, but illogical bias? Are African Americans born any different from people of other races? Does it run in their blood to spontaneously turn into criminals when they grow up? As best as I know, no one is a "born criminal", anywhere in the world, and no one ever willfully chooses to be a criminal either! Circumstances force individuals into crime and it is up to each person to choose or reject it. Offered a chance, most criminals want to quit crime for good and live clean. The Woodland Meadows project in Burn Zones proves it too. Due to this bias, many "clean and upright" African Americans are denied the opportunity to prove themselves as honest, law-abiding citizens of the country. In addition, blacks sometimes suffer punishment for crimes they haven't committed. They are suspected first and harassed.
No, this won't do for the world's greatest country! People in Govt and law-enforcement must sit up and take note!! Past prejudice must be dropped and each individual must be given an unbiased chance to prove his/her character, regardless of his/her race or the past associated with it.
What do you think?
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You'd think in this time, the present day, with all these books around to learn from, people know better, but they don't.
We still have hate crimes, discrimination, racism, sexism, ....
and it's all just sad.
But people like Newbery make the world a better place, don't you think? Even if it's just a little bit, by believing in people, by not judging them, by giving them a chance....
― Lemony Snicket
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He married a black African woman and that was becoming acceptable in his time and I think now marriages to people of different cultures and colors are very normal.
Perhaps there are always people who have their prejudices.
In the case of my sister who married a black South African, there was no problem from our family or any of the so-called 'white people, ' yet his family and people from the black community thought that she should not be married to a black man, so racism can work both ways at times
But with time and with mixing becoming more normal I think it is improving...we hope
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When people are pushed out of society and not welcomed they often just turn against it and this is where problems happen
Perhaps if people realised this.many of the crimes, ghettos and rebels could be dealt with in better more human ways I think
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So if we try to understand people and how they may be a bad position perhaps we could improve crimes and peoplez lives as Jorge had tried to do
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Unfortunately, discrimination exists in some form wherever you may go, so I'm glad that Newbery didn't try to hide or sugar-coat anything. He said it for what it was, and based on what he observed and experienced. I appreciated that honesty.
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Aye! I'm also from the Caribbean, and I would be one of the persons who do not see America in that light. Especially with the recent civil unrest, it is obvious that the nation is deeply divided. To be frank, it always has been and I would love to see it move forward, though a lot of Americans either try to ignore/discredit the inequality completely or focus on issues that aren't as pressing.VSuraj wrote: ↑16 May 2020, 17:51 I'm from the Caribbean, and many persons see the USA as a county with high ideals, the land of opportunity, of freedom, the American dream and all that jazz. So it's very disheartening to see incidents of racism. I remember some time in 2019 or 2018, there were a lot of police shootings of young African American males, and there were many protests and stuff. It pained me every time to see those headlines.
Unfortunately, discrimination exists in some form wherever you may go, so I'm glad that Newbery didn't try to hide or sugar-coat anything. He said it for what it was, and based on what he observed and experienced. I appreciated that honesty.
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