Racial prejudice is a very prominent issue in the United States. Racial prejudice is WRONG and needs to stop.

 

Facts:

According to CNN, lawmakers say that racial prejudice will NOT stop with making laws. It’s up to us.

13% of the US population is African-American. 14% do commit drug related crimes, but 37% are charged. This is racial profiling.

Latinos and African-Americans are 50% more likely to get pulled over by the police.

In 2010, the US sentencing commission said that sentences for African-Americans 10% longer than whites with the same crimes.

“In 1998, a Colorado teacher, Barb Vogel read a newspaper article to her fifth grade class about Sudanese slave children and they raised 22,000 dollars to free the slaves.” We can do something.

 

How to Help:

We can help this issue by spreading awareness and wearing orange bracelets which is the color of racial equality.