Blacks are Treated as OTHERS in USA

[sobia khan]

The US has always had an uneasy time with the idea of black agency. That is especially true when it comes to owning weapons. Even the National Rifle Association, arguably the strongest and most aggressively vocal lobby in the US, is eerily silent when black people are killed for legally possessing firearms, or toys. Yet, as uneasy as the US is with black gun ownership, it is apparently just as uneasy with black healthcare.

As many have already noted, it is easier to access a firearm than mental health services. This is especially true in black communities where mental health is most often treated as a criminal justice issue, the outcome too often being imprisonment or murder. Black people are also more likely to be imprisoned (and to be imprisoned for longer) for the same offence as a white person. Black people are less likely to be given a job than a white counterpart, and more likely to be fired from that job.

Even before adulthood, black children are subject to unfair disciplinary practices in school and suspended for infractions that are considered minor when committed by white children — and this happens as early as preschool.U.S.A media never discusses “white on white” crime, and never suggests that lower-class white people will not be able to rise out of poverty until they stop fighting among themselves. Blacks (and Latinos, Muslims, etc.) are the other — outside the norm of our culture and society. Because of this, “black on black crime” is actually considered an intelligible phrase.

Because of the consistent view of them as “other,” many black people feel they need to protect themselves from the government itself, a government that has a great many guns. At the same time, the government has until recently refused to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to even study the issue of gun violence. The relationship between communities and their police force will never improve while the police see and treat the community as an “other”.

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[Uguduwa]

More whining. The way I see it is that marginalized communities can easily improve their situation by strengthening family values (for instance, Black people as a percentage have the highest number of kids who grow with only one parent), putting more emphasis on education and becoming law abiding citizen. When the police officer asks you for an ID card, you keep your mouth shut and show it, When you display aggressive behaviour then you put yourself at risk. Life is sometimes unfair, I also faced many unfair situations but you have to have a cool head.

Same situation with Turkish, Arabs in Germany and Pakistanis, Bangladeshis in the UK.