POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kalief Browder, Equal Protection Clause, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
Document Summary
Kelley informs the audience of the violence that blacks face due their color. The reading begins with an anecdote of racial profiling about a sixteen-year-old, kalief browder, and his friends who were victimized upon. The imprisonment that browder encountered led him to lose everything including his sanity, as a result, at the age of twenty-two, he hanged himself. Then, the author brings up the constitution, which guarantees equal protection, however, black and brown people have always been always characterized as suspicion. the worth of a black life is nothing because they are disposable. For example, the expanding prison population and the shockingly high rate of black casualties caused by police shows that black people are not only devalued in the united states but treated as enemy combatants (18). Similar to current times, during the jim crow era, blacks were immediately viewed as solicitor, especially women who were out late at night. They were diminished due to their race and gender.
