Just because we don’t have slavery doesn’t mean that the mentality behind it is gone. The police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths resulted in convictions of officers involved. Racism is not just towards African Americans, it goes much deeper than that. Muslims have also suffered through time with islamophobia. Islamophobia is defined as “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.” The insane amount of hate that goes towards Muslims daily has caused an impact mainly on the women who have been in the fight against discrimination over the years and who have been shamed for believing in what they believe
Just because we don’t have slavery doesn’t mean that the mentality behind it is gone. The police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths resulted in convictions of officers involved. Racism is not just towards African Americans, it goes much deeper than that. Muslims have also suffered through time with islamophobia. Islamophobia is defined as “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.” The insane amount of hate that goes towards Muslims daily has caused an impact mainly on the women who have been in the fight against discrimination over the years and who have been shamed for believing in what they believe