America's Justice System is a Loaded Dice

Dating all the way back to the Emmett Till murder trial in 1955, when no black was eligible to serve as a juror, the American justice system has been biased. The justice system was created to punish those guilty and validate our citizens' rights. Why would a system that promotes righteousness discount equality and leave room for bias in the court?

A picture of the all-white, Bryant-Milam trial jury

Unfortunately, America was too afraid to see what would happen if justice was served. How would America react if a white man unlawfully murdered a black teen and then left his body eight miles down the Tallahatchie River? America would react by ruling the white man not guilty nor punishing him for his actions.

While the American justice system has evolved since then, some things still haven't changed. We are still hearing cases of blacks being murdered by whites, whites pleading not-guilty, and not serving jail time for criminal activity. The American justice system is a loaded dice; consistently rolling a one in favor of only one race in our society.

All in all, America needs to reduce criminal activity. America also needs to appropriately deal with criminal activity. When police forces are shooting at black teens this creates unstable trust between the authority and the community. Police are there to keep us and our communities safe, yet who feels safe when you are not sure what "type" of cop you might encounter. 

After reading an article from the New York Times titled, The Whole System Failed Trayvon Martin, I realized that America does need an eye-opener to induce change. This does not justify these murders, but as it states in the beginning of the article, "In a way, the not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman for his killing of Trayvon Martin was more powerful than a guilty verdict could ever have been. It was the perfect wrenching coda to a story that illustrates just how utterly and completely our system of justice — both moral and legal — failed Martin and his family." America can not keep waiting for a Trayvon Martin cases to realize what is going on in our society.

Our society is immoral. Our society is injustice. Our society is evolution and plat-owed. Our society needs to make a change and role a six or a five rather than rolling a one every time an innocent minority is killed.