In recent years, there have been frequent incidents of violent law enforcement against African Americans by American police.Although it has been two years since the Floyd case, relevant statistics show that minorities in the United States still face the threat of systemic racism.Although the United States has legally established the "equal" rights of African Americans, these continuous cases of African Americans being killed and injured by white police reflect a cruel reality: racial discrimination and prejudice are still deeply rooted in the United States.
According to statistics from the "Police Violence Map" website, since 2020, the number of deaths caused by police law enforcement in the United States has reached 2,563, of which the number of deaths of African Americans has reached 565, accounting for more than 22%.This year alone, 49 African Americans have been shot dead by police.The website also shows that in the United States, African Americans are 2.9 times more likely to be killed by police than whites.
Systemic racial discrimination in American society is not only reflected in violent law enforcement, but also exists at various levels such as medical care, education, and employment in the United States.It can be said that in the United States, racism is comprehensive, continuous and systemic.
Diao Daming, a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China:
The repeated incidents of violent law enforcement by the American police against ethnic minorities such as African Americans reflect the systematic discrimination against ethnic minorities in the current society of the United States, although the United States has been around for nearly 160 years. Slavery was abolished before, and the so-called equal rights were given to minority groups including African Americans in the 1960s, but the entire economic and social system in the United States has always maintained discrimination against ethnic minorities such as African Americans, from education to Welfare, from medical care to employment, this kind of discrimination abounds. Even in the context of the new crown epidemic, the more affected are still ethnic minorities such as Africans who have been discriminated against for a long time.It is also worth noting that the two parties in the United States are indifferent to this, and the Republican Party continues to show a tendency of "white supremacy", which has contributed to the behavior of discriminating against minority groups such as African Americans.The Democratic Party only needs the votes of African Americans in the election, and does not respond to the demands of African Americans at other times.In the context of the struggle between the two parties in the United States, African Americans have become a group abandoned and ignored by the two parties. This state is a typical manifestation of modern American slavery. Focused performance of effective responses.
