The movie Just Mercy really showed us the criminal justice system and all the flaws that it has. Specifically the flaws of it not being equal and are bias to African Americans and other minorities. In the court system people of color are more likely to be incarcerated for a crime they did not do, just because of their skin color. If a white person got caught for the same thing as a person of color it is automatically expected that the white person would get a shorter sentence or even just get a warning while the person of color would get the worst punishment possible. Just Mercy uses Walter McMilian as a narrative to talk about the corrupt power in his case. The corrupt power comes from having foundations in white supremacy.
\nBefore reading this I did not really know what the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d truly meant. I did not know that this brought a lot of harm to the African American community. Nixon wanted to criminalize heroin and by doing that also associating criminalization with the African American community. The court system should work on ending the war on drugs so we can keep minorities out of prison for unreasonable drug charges. So instead of going to prison they can work on overcoming their addiction and learn to not use drugs as a replacement for coping for traumatic experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The movie Just Mercy really showed us the criminal justice system and all the flaws that it has. Specifically the flaws of it not being…<\/p>\n