{"id":3980,"date":"2020-11-07T20:35:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2020-11-07T20:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T01:35:23","slug":"11-9-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/07\/11-9-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/9 Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie\u00a0Just Mercy<\/em> gave insight into the flaws that affect the criminal justice system today. The reality is that despite claims of equality, the courts remain biased against people of color, who are way more likely to get incarcerated for a crime that they did not commit or receive a way larger sentence than a white man or woman who committed the same crime. This is deeply wrong, and it makes me curious about what can be done to start changing this. The innocence project is on the right track, but due to resources, is only able to help a tiny percentage of those wronged by the criminal justice system. How do we as a nation, help to\u00a0 expand the work they are doing?<\/p>\n

Something I took away from the reading was the misconception of the phrase “War on Drugs”. When we hear this, we associate it with positive things. Helping everyone by stopping drugs which are bad. Yet this war on drugs brought a lot of harm with it, especially to the colored community. It needs to be acknowledged that everyone grows up in different communities, and are taught different things, and have different opportunities. Although this may seem as unintentional discrimination, I think that Nixon needs to be looked at under a harsher microscope, as he wanted to criminalize heroin and associate that criminilazation with the community of people of color.<\/p>\n

Before reading this, if I had heard the term “War on Drugs” I would’ve had a much different reaction then I now do after reading the article. What other terms like this are sugar-coated where it is known as something different from reality? How can we start to change the systems that are rigged against people of color, concerning both drugs and oversentancing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie\u00a0Just Mercy gave insight into the flaws that affect the criminal justice system today. The reality is that despite claims of equality, the courts…<\/p>\n

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