Since the dawn of the United States, racial inequality has plagued this country. Historically speaking, we had many racism laws implanted in our system and we had forgotten about them all. This caused the built up tension between different races in the United States. In the recent years, all these tension had exploded and became a national movement. “The Black Lives Matter” movement was a new wave of modern civil rights. More African-Americans were seeking better treatment with the police and less discrimination in governmental programs.

 

Many experts were in doubt that government programs could narrow today’s racial gaps. Harsh laws in petty crime and drugs caused incarnation population to quadruple. Minority, often Hispanics and African-Americans, was the main targets for police’s search. In New York City alone, Blacks were the subject of half of the Stop-and-Frisk policy. As more and more minority was in jail, family structure outside was heavily restructured. The lack of father figure and breadwinner in the family forced male teenagers to join gangs. They forfeited their education because the public schools in the area were usually very bad. Schools did not have funding to provide all the students with the same education quality as the majority White neighborhood. It was hard for any students to stay focus in school when they were surrounded by violence and drug. Only seven percent of Black high school students went to college comparing to 33 percent of White students. Many Black students spent their time outside of the education system in seek of income from crime. Once they went to jail, it was almost impossible for them to reenter the workforce or even continue their educations. Therefore, many politicians has suggested to implant more programs to allow disadvantageous students to continue their educations or create new job opportunities that were willing to accept them.

 

“Black Lives Matter” movement was the result of police militarization and widen racial gaps. The deep misunderstanding between Black communities and the police were finally set off after a record amount of police shooting footages surfaced on the internet. These phone videos were named the “C-Span of the streets”. It did helped the public to see how police was over-enforcing; however, it also impeded police’s ability to do his or her job. Current situation was like the old time when White fascists would lychee on African-Americans. The Jim Crow laws were actually still lingered around in today’s society. Blacks and other minority often faced discrimination in education, housing, jobs and etc. For example, the GI Bill after World War II was only limited to White veterans. Even though the bill should extend to every veterans, but only the White received college fund, housing mortgages, and chances to climb to middle class.

 

In short, the racial inequality could not be narrowed within the upcoming years (at least not with the President we have right now). The social gap between each ethnic group could only be narrowed from us within. Government programs could bring minority out of the poverty by giving them chances to learn new skills and escaped the ghetto. But there was no government programs could erase racial prejudice within our hearts.