The problem no longer rests with American law, but instead with the views that are steadfastly engrained into the fabric of our society. The passing years only compounded these social issues, creating a contemporary society that features prisons filled with black people more black people living in poverty than any other demographic and unarmed black people being gunned down in the streets, so frequently that the names of all the victims are hard to track. American people considered blacks second-class citizens, refusing to respect or accept black people into mainstream American society. Yet, even with slavery legally terminated, the country’s preexisting notions towards blacks could not be abolished. On January 1 st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a supposed end to slavery, the practice that shaped the United States since the country’s inception.
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