{"id":1745,"date":"2015-01-20T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2015-11-17T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:08:23","slug":"in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our criminal justice system is not perfect and anyone of color can be the victim of this flawed entity that looks to put people behind bars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lives of a black, white, and hispanic people all matter just the same, so it is infuriating to see the number of minorities going into prison and coming out dead. We cannot keep turning a blind eye on this issue anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows: the United States imprisons more members of its society than any other country in the world with more than 6.8 million people, as of the year 2013, in some sort of correction facility. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle Alexander, author of the book <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, suggests that there are more Blacks incarcerated now than they were in slavery conditions during the mid-1800s. Black men, in particular, account for just 30 percent of the U.S. population, yet they make up about 60 percent of the U.S. prisons\u2019 population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statistics show Latinos are just as likely to be given unfair treatment in the eyes of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Census of Juvenile in Residential Placement\u2019s data, Latino and Native American youths (under the age of 18) have higher chances -about two to three times- of getting charged and thrown in jail than a white citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black youth, have an even greater chance of getting arrested, with almost five times more likely to be arrested than white youth, even when they commit the same crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is clear that we have a problem with racism in our jail systems. Recent incidents of police brutality have revealed a nasty world full of flawed public policies and programs that were designed to oppress poor communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it\u2019s time for us to take a moment and rethink our criminal justice system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The previous statistics of how more likely minority youth are to be sent to jail, indicate that we are sending so many potential college students to jail where their chances for success drift further away. Finding a way to help these youth would be a much better than sending them off to a potential death in a racist system.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our criminal justice system is not perfect and anyone of color can be the victim of this flawed entity that looks to put people behind bars. The lives of a black, white, and hispanic people all matter just the same, so it is infuriating to see the number of minorities going into prison and coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forum"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our criminal justice system is not perfect and anyone of color can be the victim of this flawed entity that looks to put people behind bars. The lives of a black, white, and hispanic people all matter just the same, so it is infuriating to see the number of minorities going into prison and coming [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-20T17:03:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-11-17T17:08:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brayan Vazquez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Brayan Vazquez\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Brayan Vazquez\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/07593592b27d2d6083240ce101263bb5\"},\"headline\":\"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-20T17:03:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-11-17T17:08:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":377,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Forum\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/\",\"name\":\"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-20T17:03:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-11-17T17:08:23+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"MDC The Reporter\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/R_reporter_logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/R_reporter_logo.png\",\"width\":315,\"height\":309,\"caption\":\"MDC The Reporter\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/07593592b27d2d6083240ce101263bb5\",\"name\":\"Brayan Vazquez\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png\",\"caption\":\"Brayan Vazquez\"},\"description\":\"Brayan Vazquez, 20, is computer science and computer network major at North Campus. Vazquez will serve as a forum writer and photographer for The Reporter during the 2014-2015 school year. He aspires to be a tech-based entrepreneur and revolutionize the way kids learn in this new technological era.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/author\\\/brayan-vazquez\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","og_description":"Our criminal justice system is not perfect and anyone of color can be the victim of this flawed entity that looks to put people behind bars. The lives of a black, white, and hispanic people all matter just the same, so it is infuriating to see the number of minorities going into prison and coming [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/","og_site_name":"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","article_published_time":"2015-01-20T17:03:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-11-17T17:08:23+00:00","author":"Brayan Vazquez","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Brayan Vazquez","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/"},"author":{"name":"Brayan Vazquez","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#\/schema\/person\/07593592b27d2d6083240ce101263bb5"},"headline":"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most","datePublished":"2015-01-20T17:03:50+00:00","dateModified":"2015-11-17T17:08:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/"},"wordCount":377,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Forum"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/","name":"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most - The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-01-20T17:03:50+00:00","dateModified":"2015-11-17T17:08:23+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/in-a-racist-system-people-of-color-suffer-the-most\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"In A Racist System, People Of Color Suffer The Most"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/","name":"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#organization","name":"MDC The Reporter","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/R_reporter_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/R_reporter_logo.png","width":315,"height":309,"caption":"MDC The Reporter"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/#\/schema\/person\/07593592b27d2d6083240ce101263bb5","name":"Brayan Vazquez","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png","caption":"Brayan Vazquez"},"description":"Brayan Vazquez, 20, is computer science and computer network major at North Campus. Vazquez will serve as a forum writer and photographer for The Reporter during the 2014-2015 school year. He aspires to be a tech-based entrepreneur and revolutionize the way kids learn in this new technological era.","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/author\/brayan-vazquez\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}