Disparity And DiscriminationEssay Preview: Disparity And DiscriminationReport this essayDisparity is defined as the lack of similarity or equality; the condition or fact or being unequal, as in age, rank or degree; difference.Racial disparity in the criminal justice system exists when the proportion of the racial/ethnic group within the control of the system is greater than the proportion of such groups in the general population. For example in the state of Minnesota, the state was recognized as a state with a large amount of racial disparity in the child protective system. According to Johnson, there have been several studies over the past decades that point out unequal representation of different races in the child protective system. The racial disparity refers to a race or ethnic group who need to be represented actually exceeds the groups representation in the states population. Therefore, the number of children in the system should not be the ones taking the punishment for such a thing. The state should still offer the services no matter what the number look like. Furthermore, this is just one example of racial disparity that is being discussed.
Discrimination is defined as treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.
Let us take the most recent act of discrimination being held in Jena, Louisiana. In this town, six Africa American teenagers were charge with attempted murder for beating up a white student in their high school. The story started regarding a certain tree that only white students congregated at. A black student named, Kenneth Purvis, asked the principal if he could sit under the tree. The principal had stated that he could sit wherever he wanted to. The following morning the students arrived at school to find, three nooses dangling from the tree. This is what sparked the enter Jena 6 protest. Soon racial tensions began to arise which caused race-related fights. One fight involved a, Justin Barker, getting attacked by 6 black students at their high school. Upon the attack, Mr. Barker fell to the ground, hitting his head suffering from a concussion. The 6 black students were being charge with attempted murder for their actions.
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In late 2015, students at Jena were charged under the U.S. Civil Rights Act with one felony charge for using a false witness to enter a public place and to commit a felony of committing grand theft. This was filed in a US DISTRICT COURT, Louisiana, for the first time in state history. The student was an African American male, who was arrested and indicted on the same felony charge the school was trying to prove to the court. The federal judge noted, “The civil rights implications of this case have not been satisfactorily clarified after the jury was deliberated by the jury and the trial has now concluded.” The case has since been set to go to trial. In late 2016 another student filed a case against three Black school employees, who claim that they were being paid to enter a public place and to commit an assault. The case has since been set to go to trial. In June 2016 a district court in Jena received a petition from the student to have a judge make an order for her dismissal. The judge ordered that after the case is set to go to trial in June next year the teacher who was arrested for the act will be fired. The district court granted the petition and gave the student a one-day notice to file a civil rights claim. The suit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. The case is scheduled to take five to one. In May 2015 a district court in Jena received a petition from the student to have the school fired for having her dismissed while in a public place on campus for trespassing within her rights and violation of Jena’s First Amendment rights. The district court granted the petition and denied Ms. Jones’ motion for contempt of court and ordered the school fired for allowing an outside non-lawyer for two hours after a public demonstration on the campus outside her school that lasted for more than 15 minutes and that the students chanted, “We’ll do our little bit to stand up.” The students filed a civil rights lawsuit (DSA) against the school that alleged that the teacher in the lawsuit was not doing her job well. All the students were fired after their claims were proved. Mr. Jones has not been charged. In February 2016, Jena Police Chief Henry C. Williams announced that the school would no longer be hiring of African American school workers. He stated, “We cannot dismiss a student under no circumstances shall we do that for her [if the student’s claim to have been dismissed is substantiated by other evidence]. The law requires that a black person be able to speak freely at school without fear, and that white persons not be allowed to use the bathroom under any circumstances.” Mr. Williams has stated that no African American persons are being allowed to enter public accommodations that can reasonably serve the students. He further stated that, “All students involved with the school should be able to walk up to their desk, sit down on the desk to talk and, if they feel they have been harassed or attacked by their peers, they should be able to do so again. Our goal is to be open about those incidents, and the policy for our employees on campus is to be open about such incidents. “The law does not address such behavior because of race — we are here to educate students and students can respect and protect our members of our community. We want to ensure that both our employees and the student can see the values at play and are given reasonable access to the same space if they want to use that space.” Mr. Jones claims there are too many instances because of lack
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#The Rev. Bob L. Dabner, Jr. is a civil rights leader and former Chief Advocate in the Alabama Justice Department’s criminal investigations and the attorney for the family’s son, Tony Dabner Jr. He was one of the first African-American members of the Montgomery, Ala., NAACP for the early 20th century. He was born on March 29, 1951 into a prosperous family.
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The following is a quick video summary of the Dabners family’s beliefs, practices, and actions (this video has been taken from “Family History” on this page). The Dabners, by the way, are also family members, but they do a kind of American thing: they talk about their beliefs and practices.
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For years, I have spent the last 20 years following this story very closely. I have been to many school events and the last couple of days I have walked in on an all white meeting. I have taken a seat near a white person whose parents have two white kids who were there, I have called him the ‘old man’ and told him “your parents, your friends, your pastors” in a voice like ‘hey, your dad is black and your mom is white. This guy is the father of black children…’ I am proud to be able to go for another 100 seconds for this family and the families of some black people in Alabama. That evening I sat on the beach with my kids I went swimming with and my grandmother was telling the next generation of American blacks what this was all about. I did not want to be the person who told these white kids that ‘we don’t want to be your parents. Do you want to be your mothers?’ This is not what I told these white kids, I have told myself that now, this is the right time to come and tell these same families that I am ‘going into this and saying, yeah, our sons and daughters have it tough, but they know it’s not our fault that you’ve got us. They don’t want to believe we are not the good and true Negroes. Our children’s only concern is getting them over on their journey to become that little nigga they will never like. But those young men, they will tell them they can’t give us their life and their father is not their father to love. Their parents are also their own slaves…. “He has done as far as he cannot and is in no way responsible for that. I believe he is not in a position to dictate who should and cannot be the fathers of our children, the children of Black people. But he needs my help. He needs my help. And he is coming here from the black heartland, where I think that there is nothing he can do about it. But so can I. He is looking for his family and we have lost him not from himself but from all of our children. That will not make me proud. I believe it will make a big difference,” says the Pastor, Tony Dabner Sr., who lives in Saugus County with his father Jim. After a meeting with the Family Counsel, the pastor decided to get his son out of his room. He set off for Montgomery, Ala., with his family to see the Dabners. Jim and Dabner Jr. had just attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville to study at the University of Alabama’s Center for African American Studies. The Dabners had been studying at Duke University. They knew each other from
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#The Rev. Bob L. Dabner, Jr. is a civil rights leader and former Chief Advocate in the Alabama Justice Department’s criminal investigations and the attorney for the family’s son, Tony Dabner Jr. He was one of the first African-American members of the Montgomery, Ala., NAACP for the early 20th century. He was born on March 29, 1951 into a prosperous family.
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The following is a quick video summary of the Dabners family’s beliefs, practices, and actions (this video has been taken from “Family History” on this page). The Dabners, by the way, are also family members, but they do a kind of American thing: they talk about their beliefs and practices.
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For years, I have spent the last 20 years following this story very closely. I have been to many school events and the last couple of days I have walked in on an all white meeting. I have taken a seat near a white person whose parents have two white kids who were there, I have called him the ‘old man’ and told him “your parents, your friends, your pastors” in a voice like ‘hey, your dad is black and your mom is white. This guy is the father of black children…’ I am proud to be able to go for another 100 seconds for this family and the families of some black people in Alabama. That evening I sat on the beach with my kids I went swimming with and my grandmother was telling the next generation of American blacks what this was all about. I did not want to be the person who told these white kids that ‘we don’t want to be your parents. Do you want to be your mothers?’ This is not what I told these white kids, I have told myself that now, this is the right time to come and tell these same families that I am ‘going into this and saying, yeah, our sons and daughters have it tough, but they know it’s not our fault that you’ve got us. They don’t want to believe we are not the good and true Negroes. Our children’s only concern is getting them over on their journey to become that little nigga they will never like. But those young men, they will tell them they can’t give us their life and their father is not their father to love. Their parents are also their own slaves…. “He has done as far as he cannot and is in no way responsible for that. I believe he is not in a position to dictate who should and cannot be the fathers of our children, the children of Black people. But he needs my help. He needs my help. And he is coming here from the black heartland, where I think that there is nothing he can do about it. But so can I. He is looking for his family and we have lost him not from himself but from all of our children. That will not make me proud. I believe it will make a big difference,” says the Pastor, Tony Dabner Sr., who lives in Saugus County with his father Jim. After a meeting with the Family Counsel, the pastor decided to get his son out of his room. He set off for Montgomery, Ala., with his family to see the Dabners. Jim and Dabner Jr. had just attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville to study at the University of Alabama’s Center for African American Studies. The Dabners had been studying at Duke University. They knew each other from
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#The Rev. Bob L. Dabner, Jr. is a civil rights leader and former Chief Advocate in the Alabama Justice Department’s criminal investigations and the attorney for the family’s son, Tony Dabner Jr. He was one of the first African-American members of the Montgomery, Ala., NAACP for the early 20th century. He was born on March 29, 1951 into a prosperous family.
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The following is a quick video summary of the Dabners family’s beliefs, practices, and actions (this video has been taken from “Family History” on this page). The Dabners, by the way, are also family members, but they do a kind of American thing: they talk about their beliefs and practices.
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For years, I have spent the last 20 years following this story very closely. I have been to many school events and the last couple of days I have walked in on an all white meeting. I have taken a seat near a white person whose parents have two white kids who were there, I have called him the ‘old man’ and told him “your parents, your friends, your pastors” in a voice like ‘hey, your dad is black and your mom is white. This guy is the father of black children…’ I am proud to be able to go for another 100 seconds for this family and the families of some black people in Alabama. That evening I sat on the beach with my kids I went swimming with and my grandmother was telling the next generation of American blacks what this was all about. I did not want to be the person who told these white kids that ‘we don’t want to be your parents. Do you want to be your mothers?’ This is not what I told these white kids, I have told myself that now, this is the right time to come and tell these same families that I am ‘going into this and saying, yeah, our sons and daughters have it tough, but they know it’s not our fault that you’ve got us. They don’t want to believe we are not the good and true Negroes. Our children’s only concern is getting them over on their journey to become that little nigga they will never like. But those young men, they will tell them they can’t give us their life and their father is not their father to love. Their parents are also their own slaves…. “He has done as far as he cannot and is in no way responsible for that. I believe he is not in a position to dictate who should and cannot be the fathers of our children, the children of Black people. But he needs my help. He needs my help. And he is coming here from the black heartland, where I think that there is nothing he can do about it. But so can I. He is looking for his family and we have lost him not from himself but from all of our children. That will not make me proud. I believe it will make a big difference,” says the Pastor, Tony Dabner Sr., who lives in Saugus County with his father Jim. After a meeting with the Family Counsel, the pastor decided to get his son out of his room. He set off for Montgomery, Ala., with his family to see the Dabners. Jim and Dabner Jr. had just attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville to study at the University of Alabama’s Center for African American Studies. The Dabners had been studying at Duke University. They knew each other from
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#The Rev. Bob L. Dabner, Jr. is a civil rights leader and former Chief Advocate in the Alabama Justice Department’s criminal investigations and the attorney for the family’s son, Tony Dabner Jr. He was one of the first African-American members of the Montgomery, Ala., NAACP for the early 20th century. He was born on March 29, 1951 into a prosperous family.
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The following is a quick video summary of the Dabners family’s beliefs, practices, and actions (this video has been taken from “Family History” on this page). The Dabners, by the way, are also family members, but they do a kind of American thing: they talk about their beliefs and practices.
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For years, I have spent the last 20 years following this story very closely. I have been to many school events and the last couple of days I have walked in on an all white meeting. I have taken a seat near a white person whose parents have two white kids who were there, I have called him the ‘old man’ and told him “your parents, your friends, your pastors” in a voice like ‘hey, your dad is black and your mom is white. This guy is the father of black children…’ I am proud to be able to go for another 100 seconds for this family and the families of some black people in Alabama. That evening I sat on the beach with my kids I went swimming with and my grandmother was telling the next generation of American blacks what this was all about. I did not want to be the person who told these white kids that ‘we don’t want to be your parents. Do you want to be your mothers?’ This is not what I told these white kids, I have told myself that now, this is the right time to come and tell these same families that I am ‘going into this and saying, yeah, our sons and daughters have it tough, but they know it’s not our fault that you’ve got us. They don’t want to believe we are not the good and true Negroes. Our children’s only concern is getting them over on their journey to become that little nigga they will never like. But those young men, they will tell them they can’t give us their life and their father is not their father to love. Their parents are also their own slaves…. “He has done as far as he cannot and is in no way responsible for that. I believe he is not in a position to dictate who should and cannot be the fathers of our children, the children of Black people. But he needs my help. He needs my help. And he is coming here from the black heartland, where I think that there is nothing he can do about it. But so can I. He is looking for his family and we have lost him not from himself but from all of our children. That will not make me proud. I believe it will make a big difference,” says the Pastor, Tony Dabner Sr., who lives in Saugus County with his father Jim. After a meeting with the Family Counsel, the pastor decided to get his son out of his room. He set off for Montgomery, Ala., with his family to see the Dabners. Jim and Dabner Jr. had just attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville to study at the University of Alabama’s Center for African American Studies. The Dabners had been studying at Duke University. They knew each other from
There are some similarities with racial disparity and discrimination. The both deal with singling out ethnic or race groups. Another similarity would be the treatment of ethnics groups. These groups are being treated a certain way because of the numbers that are involved within the criminal justice system. These are the only similarities that I can find when dealing with disparity and discrimination.
There are a lot of differences with it comes to discrimination and disparity as well. Discrimination can be done individually, where disparity needs a group to define itself. Discrimination is also more introduced before disparity. When one hears