We the people core our society, policies, and laws to ensure protection and safety for residents in our governed body. We implement systems to keep peace and order. Yet what about the injustices within these laws? Individuals have the ability to find peace amidst the storms that threaten us during the journey of life. In this world, there is not one living being that can better interpret our personal experience than the individual themself. More specifically, the experience of living in American society. For about two centuries in history, this nation has witnessed the normalization of separatism, exploitation of privilege, and lack of consideration for lives not categorized by European qualifications. During the later centuries of racial practicing, we observed and advocated the right for civil rights, equality, education, laws of protection, and ultimately humanization of the black citizen. Much progress was made, segregation was outlawed, and civil rights laws were revised and revisited. However, progress over the course of history is relentlessly suppressed and has begun gradually rewinding. In the writings of Bryan Stevensons Just Mercy, we have immediately met with the answer to past and current abate progression in this countrys social construct: the blindness of the nation. Stevenson dedicates an opening page of the novel with a q
uote reading Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument representing and instilling the peace that is to be found in fighting for equality within the justice system; that the disreadgation of black people in American society is an ever-reoccurring act that has taken place far too long. This drive to change enacted systems of inequality Stevenson divulges in the writings of his personal journey of perseverance, addresses the denial of a corrupt justice system. With the asset of utilizing the suppression of African and brown Americans, the privilege of white Americans is rooted and thriving while celebration and accreditation are drying out and dying; its essence is being stolen. With the exemplification of Walter McMillian, an African American man wrongfully accused of murder and sentenced to the death penalty, Stevenson engages us on a thought-proving journey pushing the ideology of empathic correction over the condemnation and punishment utilized in America. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the order of events in the U.S. Criminal Justice system and to expose the manipulation of said laws and proceedings to the advantages and disadvantages of classified counterparts in our nation by way of correcting misconceptions of Black Nationalism, exposing the existence of the empathic gap, and covering the impact of racial profiling.