Title: The oppression of black people in the USA today | League for the Fifth International
Headings: The oppression of black people in the USA today
The oppression of black people in the USA today
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Content: It finds that there is still indisputable evidence that the criminal justice system is pitted against young black men, and systematically criminalises them. For example, blacks who are arrested are seven times more likely to be imprisoned than whites; they are sentenced to death four times more often than whites, and the average prison sentence is 10 months longer for black men than for white men. In addition 98 per cent of District Attorneys, those responsible for initiating prosecutions, are white and black jurors are challenged far more than whites. Black Americans make up 12.2 per cent of the American population, but black men under 25 years of age are 15 times more likely to die by murder than white men. Black men make up 48 per cent of those on death row. Of the two million people imprisoned in the US, one million are black. Yet blacks are still 20 times more likely than whites to be a victim of hate crime. The US legal system uses systematic racist techniques to convict and sentence blacks. The death penalty is racist.