ENGL 101
14 December 2020
Essay 4
The Odds Stacked Against The Black Community
With 2020’s rise in Black Lives Matter activism, world wide discussion about systemic
racism and police brutality in the US that pervades the Afican American community has risen
greatly. This conversation has definitely caught my attention. I have become much more aware
about politics and systemic racism after the events that have taken place this year, such as the
murder of George Floyd. So many black people have been locked up for no justified reasons,
many of which are related to drug use. This has led me down the rabbit hole of wanting to
