Common Sense Is Not Common
Common Sense Is Not Common
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End Racism
13 minutes Posted Jun 20, 2020 at 2:03 pm.
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Hey Guys, and welcome, the in the past few weeks no matter where you look, whether its mainstream media or social media you would have witnessed recent reports on protests against racial injustice, inequality, and police brutality.
There have been numerous peaceful protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd and other members of the black community at the hand of law enforcement officers. The Black Lives Matter Movement has been the loudest so far. 
 
We are currently living in the information age where news is no longer controlled by a limited few. Today anyone with a cellphone can capture footage of human rights violations and have it go viral in a matter minutes through social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more recently TikTok. 
The killing of Black People by the police has happened numerous times throughout our history,  over the past few years, however,  each time it has happened it sparked protests and calls for justice from the black community. But this time it is different. Because everyone is witnessing the heavy-handed tactics being used by the police and disproportionately inflicted upon the black community. This time other people are standing up with the black community against inequality, injustice, and police brutality.   The list of Names of Black Men and women killed by the police is very long and the list of names of those profiled because of their skin color is even longer. 
For decades the black community has been calling for the end of systemic racism.
The type of racism that creates a vicious cycle that keeps many black people under-educated, under-employed, over-policed, and over-incarcerated.
To end systemic racism, America needs to stop failing people of color. Because right now it is failing them.
I believe that poverty is the biggest factor that influences crime. According to statistics from the last census, the percentage of blacks who are poor is twice that of whites who are poor. And the crime rate in poor neighborhoods is higher than the crime rate in the rich neighborhoods. In countries where the majority of people are the same color, more crime is committed in poorer areas. Therefore its not people’s skin color that causes them to commit crimes, its socio-economic problems that influence criminal activity. As a society, we need to encourage and enable Black People to rise out of poverty. We need to encourage all Americans to overcome poverty. Because a society that has more people gainfully employed will see a reduction in crime. But we should not marginalize people because of their skin color.
 Now we cannot leave it up to corporations to solve this problem by just creating jobs. Because corporations have one main goal, making profits. So it will seek its ideal customer which is more often than not an affluent individual. Just look at who banks choose to loan to, people who already have money. The policies that these companies have tends to be very biased against low-income people.
 The Federal Government needs to take up the mantle of First making comprehensive laws that will eradicate systemic racism automatically. For example, voter suppression, when political parties commission studies that determine the types of IDs blacks are less likely to have and then implementing the use of that  ID as a requirement to vote or when they close polling stations in black communities and the nearest one is hours away are examples, of how racist and corrupt our system is. 
 
Education
One way to get out of poverty is to be educated. We have an education system that needs a lot of work.  Best Practices need to be adopted from across the world. Countries such as Canada, Japan, and Isreal have better education systems than we do. But just improving education is not enough, we need equity in the school system where people in poor neighborhoods receive the same quality of education as people in richer communities. The quality of education our children get should not b