Unsurprisingly, the US government's own findings reveal racial disparities in sentencing as well, with Black prisoners' sentences nearly 20 percent longer than those of white prisoners.
The Guardian's database of police killings in the US revealed that the number of young Black men killed in 2015 was five times higher than that of white men of the same age.
As noted in the 1968 landmark report by the Kerner Commission, convened after the 1967 unrest in Detroit, racial disparities in the US criminal justice system go hand in hand with "culturally embedded forms of racial discrimination" in Black communities seen in inadequate housing, high unemployment, voter suppression and access to upward mobility.
Rather this article is meant to illustrate that should Black Americans seek international protection, they could very well receive it given their country's disastrous human rights record and the pervasive institutional discrimination they suffer.
The US may pride itself on being a bastion of human rights, but it is clear Black Americans are not receiving their fair treatment, access or share.
