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Since revealing Colin Kaepernick is the star of its 30th-anniversary "Just Do It" campaign, athletic brand Nike has been on the receiving end of a huge social media firestorm. Reactions to the announcement have been split, with many supporting the company's decision to highlight the controversial athlete, and others criticizing the brand for what they believe is an endorsement of his activism. One of the most surprising reactions to the campaign has been led by social media users who have posted images and videos of themselves destroying their own Nike products.

On Monday afternoon, Nike revealed a black and white image of Colin with the words "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything" printed in front of his face. The brand's famous slogan "Just Do It" and the Nike check appeared at the bottom of the image. The quote apparently references the bold stance Colin took in 2016, when he began kneeling during the national anthem to bring light to heavy police violence against black people and other issues that plague the black community. The former San Francisco quarterback's actions set off a ripple effect, which, according to a lawsuit he's brought against the NFL, has led to him being ostracized by team owners and unable to play in the league.

Over the years, critics of Colin's protest have tended to associate his unwillingness to stand for the national anthem with the idea that, by not standing, he was disrespecting the flag, and subsequently military veterans. Despite many veterans coming out in support of his demonstration, and Colin confirming the true purpose of his actions, critics have maintained these same ideas. These criticisms resurfaced during the past 24 hours, when protesters of Nike's Colin campaign began sharing messages on social media about their disappointment in Nike for endorsing a person they believe is guilty of disrespecting the flag and military. The Twitter hashtag #NikeProtest has been filled with images of people destroying their Nike gear and defaming Colin.

Other Twitter users have joined the conversation to poke fun at the protest and show their support for the campaign. Many of these users have posted images of their Nikes and commended the brand for standing by Colin and helping him shed light on important issues. They have also made sure to point out that Nike is one of the largest retail companies in the world, and will most likely not face serious financial hardships because of this new boycott.

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People Are Protesting Colin Kaepernick's Nike Ad by Burning Sneakers They Already Bought

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Since revealing Colin Kaepernick is the star of its 30th-anniversary "Just Do It" campaign, athletic brand Nike has been on the receiving end of a huge social media firestorm. Reactions to the announcement have been split, with many supporting the company's decision to highlight the controversial athlete, and others criticizing the brand for what they believe is an endorsement of his activism.

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Do Better is an op-ed column by writer Lincoln Anthony Blades that debunks fallacies regarding the politics of race, culture, and society - because if we all knew better, we'd do better.
In late 2017, the Washington Post published a story on juvenile incarceration that stated fewer young people are going to jail, with the number of incarcerated juveniles falling to the lowest level seen since the United States government began tracking the data in 1997.

In that year, approximately 1 in 400 young people were sent to juvenile justice facilities, but in 2015, that number dropped significantly to 1 in 1,000. At first glance, these figures suggest a historic moment for a "forward-thinking" society, but upon closer inspection, there is a far more insidious truth present: while overall youth incarceration is down, according to analysis by advocacy organization, The Sentencing Project, incarceration of black youth has risen. Their research revealed that in 2001, black kids were four times as likely as white kids to incarcerated as a juvenile, and are now five times as likely to be incarcerated than white kids and 300% more likely to just be arrested for simple assault, which is among the most common reasons teens are arrested.

Changes are occurring but not necessarily in the communities the most in need of change. And the difference between punishing a youth offender as a child, or sentencing them as an adult, has major consequences, too.

In October 2016, WNYC released a report stating that almost 90% of New Jersey children whom were tried as adults in criminal court cases were either black or Latinx, though white children and black children commit the same crimes, Laura Cohen, the director of the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School explained in an interview with WNYC. Even with that known, prosecutors don't attempt to try white children as adults as often as they do to black and brown children.

Similar troubling patterns exist in many states all across the nation. An analysis by the Miami Herald last year showed that in Florida, half of all youth arrests and two-thirds of the juveniles transferred to the adult system are black, despite African-Americans only comprising 17% of the state's population. In 2008, Neelum Arya and Ian Augarten published a report for the Campaign for Youth Justice citing that African-American children comprise 62% of all children prosecuted in the adult criminal system, making them nine times more likely to receive an adult prison sentence than a white child, despite the fact that black youth only comprise 17% of the overall juvenile population in America. Because state data on juvenile transfers - or the instance when it is deemed that a child should be tried in an adult court - is so limited, it is difficult to relay the facts uniformly but recent research outlines the overrepresentation of black youth in adult courtrooms.

Sending juveniles to adult jails often works to entrench children in more negative behavior and greatly harm their ability to be effectively rehabilitated. These children are exposed and subjected to the increased violence of adult jail, and learning criminal behavior from the adults around them, they develop and internalize even more troubling patterns of conduct. This is why the recidivism rate is 34% higher for children rooted into the adult justice system, as compared to offenders left in the juvenile system. By using the adult justice system as an overtly punitive response to black and brown children, and then sending them back into communities that are already subject to over policing, discrimination, and systemic disadvantage, we are setting them up to remain connected to institutionalization for the rest of their lives.

While statistics provide evidence of discrimination in the justice system, it's important to understand the history of juvenile punishment in America, in its full, racialized nature.

In the early nineteenth century, there was no official juvenile justice system in the country. During this time, kids were looked at as little grown-ups and were subject to being tried and sentenced as adults, while activist groups, such as the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, in New York, which advocated for a better method of handling "juvenile delinquency", resulting in the creation of the New York House of Refuge, and others later modeled after it in other states. These houses were basically asylums were young boys, vagrants, homeless and/or those charged with petty crimes whom received education, while also absorbing corporal punishment. That activism helped to bring about "the child savers" movement who advocated that the state should intervene on issues of juvenile justice to provide moral and academic instruction to youth in order for them to become useful members of America's corporate capitalist system. (It wasn't until 1899 that the U.S. formed the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago, which adopted the principle that children are not as fully developed as adults - meaning they shouldn't receive the same punishments as adults, as they have a greater chance of being successfully rehabilitated because of their age.)

White children were predominantly put in these institutions, which existed mainly in the East and the North. In the South, mostly black children were either subject to the far harsher disciplinary systems of slavery, or forced into a form of youth " convict leasing," a sort of pseudo-slavery. Even after enslaved people were emancipated, southern whites created "black codes", and many black people found themselves effectively re-enslaved through sharecropping and other methods. Many of those trapped in these systems were black youth, who found themselves locked in chain gangs and working on prison farms, regardless of their age or charge. Then, before the Great Migration spread black families throughout the nation, Jim Crow laws in the south - where most black families in the U.S. then lived - resulted in great numbers of young black offenders found "guilty" of crimes such as vagrancy, which covered mostly petty offenses, from loitering to even living unemployed.

In the decades after, black boys and girls weren't given access to reformation, but rather incarceration that either resulted in jail or, sometimes, a lynch mob.

It is that history that frames the nature of what we are up against today: a system and society that views white children as redeemable, innocent, and rehabilitatable, while viewing black children as untamed beings requiring restraint under lock and key.

Research by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, a professor and social psychologist at Stanford University, revealed that people, both conservative and liberal, express greater support for sentencing all juveniles to life when they're presented with the image of a black juvenile offender, versus a white juvenile offender. It is that common mindset that is inherently guiding the minds of those with discretionary power to determine the fate of young black and brown defendants. This mindset has contributed to the chasm that exists between how we treat kids who may be trapped in an inescapable system. If we continue to view black and brown children as intrinsically less innocent and inherently more criminal, we'll continue to foster a system that fails to live up to the most basic and fundamental principles of criminal justice.

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The Criminal Justice System Discriminates Against Children of Color

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Do Better is an op-ed column by writer Lincoln Anthony Blades that debunks fallacies regarding the politics of race, culture, and society - because if we all knew better, we'd do better.

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the video talks about how some cities in Mexico are very different to the cities in the US.  The man who is in the video, struggles to go to collage anywhere.  He moved to the U.S when he was 5, he then completed his whole school education up until he graduated high school.  The only problem was that he had no papers, because he was in the U.S illegally.  He decide was  that he would try and go back to the town where he was born.  When he arrived there he was denied collage education because all of his papers were in English, and very few people in the small town spoke enough English to understand the papers about his education.

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After having grown up in the United States as an undocumented immigrant, Rufino Santiz Díaz decided to go back to Mexico — and now finds himself caught between two worlds.

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Notes from The Consequences of Racism Podcast

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From How should I to Raise a Black son in America?
* The theme of this podcast is blackness has a different set of rules. Meaning that being black and having fun with friends, messing around, you would have to dial down and control yourself because of you skin color, you wouldn't be able to get away with things.
*His dad tells him that the people who live in the Projects aren't their because they were forced into it.
*He said that he is thinking about the conversation with his son that his dad had with him, he is thinking about how to say these things. That it is not his sons fault that what is happening.
*There may be a day when black dad don't have to have these conversations with their black sons.
From How does Racism affect pregnant women and babies?
*Black women in america are 4x more likely to die during childbirth than white women.
* Being concerned can effect your health, like for instance being worried about being pulled over by police when you are black.
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What does it mean to be judged before you walk through the door? What are the consequences? This week, TED speakers delve into the ways racism impacts our lives, from education, to health, to safety.

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- "Black boys" on average raised in even the richest families, still earn less when adults.
- "Rich white boys" tend to stay the same. 

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- "Black boys" on average raised in even the richest families, still earn less when adults.
- "Rich white boys" tend to stay the same. 

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-Their income may be different depending on education

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Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys (Published 2018)

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A study of 20 million children shows the fragility of the American Dream.