The history of racism in the courts has gone down throughout the last few decades. Each decade there is less discrimination as the last. In 1930s the Scottsboro boys may have not gotten a fair trial at first but today the courts have less racism and is given black men more of a fair trial. The Kobe Bryant case is one example of a more fair trial than the Scottsboro case.
In 1931 a train that was stopped in Scottsboro because some men were thrown off the train. Nine black boys and two white women were taken off the train in Scottsboro. The nine black men were tried for rape of two white women, they got the death penalty the first time they were tried. Their cases were kicked back to Scottsboro from the supreme court. Each time they had a
Im not saying there is racism in the courts or in eyes of America. There is, but it is not shown as much now than it was in the 1930s. In the 1930s blacks had few rights as they did today. Today blacks have more freedom and are allowed to go places they were unable to goto in the 1930s. Now it is look down when there is discrimination in society. Society has changed and as it changes there will be less and less discrimination. Like the Declaration of Independence says, “that all Men are created equal.” I think that this is becoming more and more true as life goes on.
A black teen named Brenton Buttler was tried for killing a white elderly women in the 1990s. The only reason he was tried was because a cop pulled him over to talked to him
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