CAS PH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Societal Racism, Institutional Racism, Fourth Amendment To The United States Constitution
28 Nov 2016
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How could the war on drugs operate in a discriminatory manner, on such a large scale, when hardly anyone advocates or engages in structural racism? . Structural can be broader and include cultures and has historical basis. The normalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative . Something that is local, a single person"s beliefs. Racism that is produced from the racist prejudices, racial biases , or explicit racist beliefs of an individual person. Can be apart of structural racism because they may be so common. People of color are arrested, charged, and convicted at greater rates for drug crimes, and receive harsher sentences, than white people. The majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white but of all people imprisoned for using or dealing drugs are black or latino. The 4th amendment could be seen as a major barrier to personal discretion.
