Ryan's Blog About The New Jim Crow

 Ryan Metzger - 4/1/2021 Final Thoughts - Why Does Systemic Racism Exist? And How Do We Solve It?        To start this blog I am going to show you two different pictures, one of them is from Chicago in 1919, and the other is in Baltimore in 2015. Red Summer in Chicago: The Race Riots of 1919 (Bates) Riots in Baltimore After The Killing of Freddie Gray: 2015 (Lee)      Nearly a century later, and with a new era of "Jim Crow Laws", what has changed? And more importantly, is systemic racism worse now in 2021 than it was more than a century before in 1919?   The answer to that question is starting to become grimmer as America seems to drift further apart every day. Considering that over 592,000 Black people were incarcerated as of 2007 (Gramlich), I don't think America has come very far, if not gone backward.   Time and time again in American history, we have seen the systemic oppression of Black people. First, it was slavery, then it was the Jim Crow Laws, and now it is the