An old case together reveals American racism scars

Recently, an injustice of the United States more than 20 years ago was "vindicated".

Due to insufficient evidence, the Brooklyn Higher Court of New York revoked the guilty of murder of the three ethnic defendants.

Screenshot of the National Public Broadcasting Station (NPR) website

On November 26, 1995, a arson case occurred in the New York City Metro, causing a staff member to die. The police then arrested three ethnic minorities, and the three were eventually sentenced to murder.

Although the three have always emphasized that they were coerced and perjured, they ignored it.

Until this case involved in the case, he was repeatedly accused of confession and framed the suspects, and the problem gradually exposed.

The local prosecutor of Brooklyn said that the confession of the three contradicted the on -site evidence, and the identity of the witnesses was also full of problems.

Vincent Elder

One of the three men, 44 years old, said to the media after being released that the purpose of the police was just conviction. As for who was convicted, they didn't care.

"What happened to us can never be recovered, no matter how much money, I can't make up for it. Do you know why my daughter hates me? Because I am absent from her growth." Elb complained sadly.

Elder's lawyer pointed out that this situation is not a case, exposing the systemic racial discrimination in the United States.

This is not alarmist.

"Black and White" US judicial system

A recent report released by the US non -party organization "Criminal Justice Commission" shows that among the African -American and white prisoners who have been betting on the US prefecture prisons, the gap between the severity and prisoner of their sentencing is expanding.

The report shows that from 2005 to 2019, the proportion of African -American Americans who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison in the state had increased from 13%to 19%, and the proportion of white people only increased from 12%to 15%.

This means that the phenomenon of racial inequality in the US judicial system is increasing.

British "Guardian" report screenshot

According to data from the US National Injustice Case Filter Registration Center in November last year, since the statistics of 1989, a total of 2,891 people were misjudged, of which white people accounted for 35.7%and African descent accounted for 49.6%.

In addition, the analysis of some cases in the center shows that the possibility of being misjudged in the sexual assault case is 3.5 times the possibility of white men. The possibility of being misjudged was 12 times that of the white people.

"If you are poor African descent, in most cases, whether you are light or felony, you cannot be treated fairly in the US judicial system." Essence

Jason Nichols

High temperature weather is more "fatal" to them

In fact, in the United States, in addition to judicial injustice, employment, housing, education and many other fields, racial discrimination in many fields is more normalized, and the damage to ethnic minorities is more extensive and lasting.

Since the summer of this year, extreme high temperature weather has swept the world. The continuous heat of the United States has also become another evidence of further deterioration of the human rights of minorities.

A research report published in the "Nature" magazine found that in almost every major cities in the United States, ethnic minorities are exposed to more extreme cities than white people, because their settlements are often lacking in green space due to urban planning problems, often lack of green spaces. , Resulting in a more serious hot island effect.

Studies have shown that African -American and Latin residents are the most affected by urban heat island effects in the summer.

On July 22, local time, the US ethnic minority construction workers worked on a construction site on the Lennox Avenue, New York.

In addition, the proportion of ethnic minorities in the United States to engage in outdoor work such as agriculture and construction industry is greater, and it is also more frequent at extremely high temperature.

Many ethnic minorities, low -income families, especially families in African, Latin or Aboriginal communities. They are unable to use air conditioners due to high energy costs, which is more likely to occur in heat stroke; and they often have various Basic diseases are more likely to be threatened by life at high temperatures.

Screenshot of the US Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website report

Statistics show that during the ten years from 2005 to 2015, African Americans increased by 67%for being sent to the emergency room for high temperature damage, an increase of 63%; while the economic level and social status were relatively high White people have only increased by 27%.

"This is how our system is designed"

Even so, it is lucky to have a body in extreme weather. But not everyone can be so lucky.

As the record inflation drives the price of living necessities such as food, fuel, and the continuous rise in the price of daily necessities, housing rents in the United States are also rising.

In May of this year, the median rents in the US houses exceeded $ 2,000, an increase of more than $ 260 over last year. This has made many Americans who can't afford rent, and the most injured are ethnic minorities.

The Standard Tent of Atlanta, the United States

The United States "Congress" recently published an article, which strictly criticized the phenomenon of uneven US wealth distribution.

According to the data quoted by the article, the wealth of 0.1%of the richest group in the United States is equivalent to the total of 90%of the lowest families in the United States. In other words, up to 135 million Americans belong to the poor or low -income.

Even before the outbreak, a quarter of the net worth of African -American households was 0.

The article warns that problems such as frequent economic inequality and violent incidents and exacerbation of political polarization have made the smell of gunpowder in the American air, and it will be detonated at any time like the created "earth bomb" (IED).Screenshot of Congress Mountain News

Whether it is judicial injustice or other disasters, the impact of minorities in the United States is more serious than white people.And this inequality reflects American systemic racial discrimination and prejudice.

As the former famous basketball player Charles Buckley said: "Politicians divide us to rule us, so that white and African descent do not like each other, make the rich and the poor not like each other, and let the middle class fragmented." And all of this, all of which are allIt is because "our system was designed from the beginning."

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Material Source 丨 Global Information Broadcast "Global Deep Observation"

Writing 丨 Li Yan

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