What is racism?
The definition of racism is generally described as one’s belief that their race or ethnicity accounts for differences in character or ability, which makes them superior to others. Racism has become so ingrained in society because children began witnessing racial discrimination and prejudicial practices at an early age and it carries into adulthood.
This video provides a look at many of the men wrongfully convicted and then exonerated by DNA evidence during the first decade of the 21st century.
Although "White Americans" constitute approximately 70 percent of the U.S. population, about 70 percent of those exonerated by DNA testing are members of minority groups, according to the Innocence Project.
Have people of color been wrongly convicted in a systematic manner?
Race is a pigment of our imagination. It is a social status, not a biological one; a product of history, not of nature; a contextual variable, not a given. The concept of race is a historically contingent, relational, subjective phenomenon, yet it is typically misbegotten as a natural, fixed trait of phenotypic difference inherent in human bodies, independent of human will or intention.
