Legal Discrimination
The racial bias that originated from Southern beliefs of white superiority is still prevalent in the many systems of the United States. This mistreatment of African Americans is significant in the effects of the United States justice system. Historical ordinances were placed upon individuals of color to push toward segregation.
Jim Crow laws exhibit the familiarity of white privilege. The relevance of lynching in this article is to aggressively persuade people of color for the increased enforcement of these ordinances. In the 1940s-1980s, One of the tactics used to delay the progression of civil rights for these individuals was redlining. The term redlining, such as Jim Crow, was another strategy that prioritized wealthy white communities and placed low income and poverty stricken individuals of color at multiple disadvantages. Prices were raised on items to selectively discriminate against African American (and plainly, non-white) neighborhoods.These laws increased the difficulty for African American individuals to gain anything beneficial from the government.
Additionally, the notion that it was necessary for African American individuals to be maintained and controlled due to their appearance pervaded the everyday lives of citizens. Redlining permeated through the home-mortgage market and created negative conditions for people of color. These methods pushed society into retrogression. This apparent path of genocide of African American communities gave white people the disgustingly unjust ability to further their advancement in the hierarchal classes in the United States.
White superiority beliefs still exist in modern society, and provide nothing to black citizens but fear for life. Whether discrimination is immediate and physical or hidden and gradual, the genuine toll that it takes is very real. The ease of availability for white people to gain the hopes rooted in the foundation of the country undermines the excessive violence of lynching, slavery, brutality, and mistreatment of African Americans.
Primary Source: Coates, Story by Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 16 June 2020, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Secondary Source: “LYNCHING IN AMERICA: CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF RACIAL TERROR.” Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/