Why Are Americans Still Saying White Supremacy Isn't A Thing In America?

Yesterday, The Huffington Post posted an article about a Judicial Officer forging signatures on a ballot for re-election and only was put on probation. While two minority women illegally voted and got five to eight years in prison. Things like this is where I don't understand why Americans don't believe white supremacy is thing in the USA. 

In my last blog I spoke about black innocent men being killed by police officers. The President felt like it was not a national government issue. The fact that two minority women are serving five to eight years for making a mistake, but a house official got off on probation for forging signatures to be re-elected shows there is something seriously wrong with our government. Its white supremacy at its finest. I truly believe if these two women were white they would get off with a slap on the wrist.

          Supposedly the only reason this white official got probation was because he pleaded guilty. Although this maybe true, there are many people that believe he should have been hold at a higher standard than others. He was forced to resign from office but that’s all he got. While two women that could’ve gotten a warning are sitting in a jail cell.

          The government needs to do something about this. This is happening increasingly every day. I suggest the government looking into these judges that are convicting these innocent men and women. The government should show equality to everyone no matter if they are a judicial official, police officer, a citizen, or a person with a green card.

   

Dear Nick

Dear Nick,

This is such an important issue that I think many Americans don’t think about. Thank you for writing about this and showing that someone in this country cares about all Americans even if you are a criminal. Criminals are still human and are like everybody else, just fell off track and made some very poor decisions. They deserve to have a great and long life after fulfilling their sentence. I definitely agree that Ex-prisoners should have a chance at a stable life after completing their sentence. Usually after completing 20 plus years in prison, it’s very hard for ex-prisoners to live in the real world because they have been so use to their everyday life in prison. I completely agree with you Nick, that there should be some programs for ex-prisoners to live a healthy life style. I believe the US is putting way too much money into these prisons while they can put the money into something else like helping the home owners that were affected in the hurricanes or people that live in shelters.

           

The only suggestion I can make is siting your source. You mentioned that “we make up to 25% of the worlds incarcerations and have the highest incarceration rate in the world,” but you don’t say where you got that from. Its very important to always mention where you get your information from.

           

This was a great blog and I really enjoyed reading it. Nobody really thinks about the men and women that are in those prisons as people. They are just like you and me just didn’t make the best decisions. That doesn’t mean we treat them like they’re animals.