In the United States, true equality has never existed. From the

Declaration of Independence to modern times, the US legal system has failed at

any attempt at equality. '...all men are created equal...' may be what the

Declaration says, but 'some men are more equal than others' is how the legal

system interprets that phrase. The actual reality of the Declaration of

Independence is that all free, white, landowning men are created equal.

Therefore, inequality has always existed in the united States' legal system

and continues to exist today; however, the inequality presently in the system

is not as blatant as what it once was. Slavery continued in the United States

for nearly ninety years after the Declaration, and African Americans still

feel the sting of inequality today. If the US legal system is blind and just

as it is supposed to be, why, then, is a minority, such as the African

One of the most controversial issues today is the act of racial

profiling. The most common form is direct, meaning victims are directly

profiled, usually by the police. In this form, individual officers act on

CNN's Reliable Source. The Associated Press's coverage stood out because it

punished than Caucasian prisoners ('Racism Behind Bars Revisited').

involved in so many issues is viewed as nothing more than unfortunate reality,

television viewers were so accustomed to seeing African American crime

percent of monthly cocaine users were Caucasian. 70 percent of regular

physicians were at odds against each other and how the news media was playing

helpless in reporting 'color of law' attacks. It is their word against a

from the news media, mainly television' ('Media Blackface'). An article

racial profiling occurs despite overwhelming evidence supporting it. The

associated with drug use.' Also 'the majority of Americans report getting

never been thought of highly in this country's legal system. This does not

misconducts than Caucasian inmates due to the perception that African American

In March 1998 two studies on the United States drug policy were released

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