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Systemic Racism, Police Brutality of Black People, and the Use of Violence in Quelling Peaceful Protests in America
The Age of Human Rights Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-15 , DOI: 10.17561/tahrj.v15.5851
Williams C. Iheme

The Trump Administration and its mantra to ‘Make America Great Again’ has been calibrated with racism and severe oppression against Black people in America who still bear the deep marks of slavery. After the official abolition of slavery in the second half of the nineteenth century, the initial inability of Black people to own land, coupled with the various Jim Crow laws rendered the acquired freedom nearly insignificant in the face of poverty and hopelessness. Although the age-long struggles for civil rights and equal treatments have caused the acquisition of more black-letter rights, the systemic racism that still perverts the American justice system has largely disabled these rights: the result is that Black people continue to exist at the periphery of American economy and politics. Using a functional approach and other types of approach to legal and sociological reasoning, this article examines the supportive roles of Corporate America, Mainstream Media, and White Supremacists in winnowing the systemic oppression that manifests largely through police brutality. The article argues that some of the sustainable solutions against these injustices must be tackled from the roots and not through window-dressing legislation, which often harbor the narrow interests of Corporate America.

中文翻译:

系统性种族主义、警察对黑人的残暴以及在平息美国和平抗议中使用暴力

特朗普政府及其“让美国再次伟大”的口号已被校准为种族主义和对美国黑人的严重压迫,他们仍然带有深深的奴隶制印记。在 19 世纪下半叶正式废除奴隶制后,黑人最初无法拥有土地,再加上各种吉姆克劳法,使得在贫困和绝望面前获得的自由几乎无足轻重。尽管长期以来为争取公民权利和平等待遇而进行的斗争导致获得了更多的黑字权利,但仍在扭曲美国司法系统的系统性种族主义在很大程度上破坏了这些权利:结果是黑人继续存在于美国经济和政治的边缘。本文使用功能性方法和其他类型的法律和社会学推理方法,考察了美国企业界、主流媒体和白人至上主义者在筛选主要通过警察暴行表现出来的系统性压迫方面的支持作用。文章认为,针对这些不公正现象的一些可持续解决方案必须从根本上解决,而不是通过装饰门面的立法,因为这些立法往往包含美国公司的狭隘利益。
更新日期:2020-12-15
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