Politics and Racism

America is considered to be a free and truly democratic country where everybody has got equal rights. But the question is that does everyone enjoy this freedom? No doubt that we have left the era where USA was plagued by racial discrimination but are we really free? We cannot be oblivious to the fact that if we are saying so we are actually lying to ourselves. We might have left behind the era of Jim Crow laws but it seems like we are entering into a new Jim Crow era. Every day we hear about racist vigilantism. Who can forget the case of Trayvon Martin?  Though George Zimmerman tried hard to prove himself right but even conservative politicians conceded that he was wrong to single out Trayvon just because of the colour of his skin.
But this is not a single case. It happens every day. In state after state and city after city the same thing happens and the problem is that it is perfectly legal because the perpetrators are representatives of the American criminal injustice system.
Let us take an example of New York City. There is a stop and frisk policy in New York City, where hundreds of police officers target young men of colour and the problem is that they get orders from above for doing this.

This is so rampant that one might think that racism must be against the law. But unfortunately racism is the law

Actually racism has become the most important way to segregate the working class. One section of the working class is suppressed and the working class on the whole is kept divided which works perfectly fine for politicians because then they can govern with more autocracy.

Let us take example of Florida.  It has a "Stand Your Ground" self-defence law that allows a person to use a deadly weapon if they "reasonably believe" they are being threatened with death or serious injury. But who decides that? Can we take the word of a person and let go off a serious felony?

After this law went into effect,  homicides jumped, from eight in 2004 to 40 in 2010. But is this law applicable to all .What if an African American teen claimed he was attacked by a neighbourhood watch volunteer, and shot him in self-defence?  Would anyone believe that? Would the police not arrest him because of the "Stand Your Ground" law?

It is the most important question that needs to be answered and with that answer we can hope to find a solution to the problems of racial discrimination that is still going on actively in our country.