Racism is in our history. Fugitive slave laws in the 1790s permitted slave owners and others in positions of power to hire slavecatchers who seized and returned enslaved people who fled plantations. The Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 established a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S. Racial profiling and aggressive immigration information have targeted people based on their appearance, language, perceived ethnicity or religion. These parts of our history cannot be erased, but we can learn from them. If we’re going to establish more racial equality in our legal system, it is crucial that we understand how our history affects it today. #HowWeHeal is by acknowledging these past transgressions and understanding what we must do to change.
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2di wish there was a 5th page explaining the importance of Critical Race Theory in this process. Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell, and other American legal scholars, developed CRT for use in illuminating for law students, legal scholars and lawmakers, how so many different laws throughout the legal system have deeply embedded racism. It would go far in dispelling the diagusting and hurtful disinformation campaign surging through MAGA Americans.