The killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.

The killing of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.

Introduction

Racism today is not limited to people of color, but to the immigrants, who if they have academic preparation to help them excel in society are inevitably victims of discrimination in jobs outside the law, under threat of being reported and deported. Racism in the United States dates back to their ancestors, and while there have been emblematic struggles, there is no longer something that is somewhat ingrained part of society. In the twentieth century the indigenous people, mainly children, were forced to abandon their cultures, languages and forced labor (Bonilla-Silva, 2003). There are many types of punishment, but the uprooting and replacing their cultural origins to be one of the most abhorrent attitudes toward a human.

They were stripped of their parents and sold as slaves. In that state of submission lived for decades, who know no freedom, it is difficult to fight for it; subjugation and cultural uprooting denigrate the human being to the point of assimilating as that is the irreversible fate has brought them life. In the United States after brave defenders of the rights of indigenous and black people were getting and accepting the government claims such abuses and trying to symbolically some financial reparations to many abuses committed in the course of time (Emmett Winn, 2012).

The theme of this research paper is regarding the racism act in United States when in the early hours of Saturday November 19, 2011, the retired Marine officer Kenneth Chamberlain was shot dead by police officers without any reasons. The whole scenario points towards the racism act by the police officers and an unethical behavior caused by them. Therefore this paper aims to focus on the unethical issues and cause of racism act by police officers, whose responsibility is to provide public with safety and not to harm them.

Discussion

Racism in the United States is one of many documented widespread in contemporary history, although the ethnocentrism has affected mankind since ancient times. The most obvious and have been known in European countries, China, Japan, and North America. Hollywood and American industry of cinema have been one of the means that have more widespread phenomenon in the United States. This prejudice is manifested mainly of white Anglos and Americans of birth against African Americans, and more recently Chinese, Japanese, immigrant Hispanic Americans, Jews. After his release during the Civil War by Abraham Lincoln, the southern states who resented their defeat in the civil war enacted a variety of laws to discriminate against blacks (Emmett Winn, 2012).

This phenomenon is known as the "reconstruction". This process of "reconstruction" after the civil war was so intense and widespread that at the end of this in 1877 and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as the nineteenth president that discrimination was extended to the northern states were initially not to the point that in the early twentieth century could see the severity of discrimination and racism in places like New York, Boston, Detroit and ...