It is believed by many people that discrimination amongst race and gender has been diminished by the Civil Rights Act. However in today’s society, I find that very hard to believe. After watching ABC’s 20/20 video about Alex Wood and Tyron Brown’s case with a personal experience that happened in my life, I believe that the racial and gender discrimination still exists. As mentioned in one of the videos, Alex Wood who was white and a son of a well known Reverend were well-off and had many connections with other famous people. Alex Wood was charged 10 years probation and was privileged to be free after committing a murder. On the other hand, Tyron Brown who came from a poor family background and had no famous connections in his community was also charged 10 year probation for pointing a gun and robbing whatever money they had without hurting them. He had later returned what he stole back to the owner.
During probation time, both had additional punishment because they had broken the law again. Alex Wood was charged twice with possession of cocaine and other offenses due to his behavior. However, Tyron Brown was only caught smoking marijuana once and was sentenced to life. This was injustice to Brown because I believe the judge based his punishment from his poor background and who had no connection with anyone famous. Wood’s case should have been taken more seriously because he did take someone’s life and did continue to do wrong things while on probation.
I can relate to this is because one member of my family was charged guilty of doing something he did not do. Only because he was the only guy around at the time and the girl was white. So the judge favored her rather than what really happened. He ended up paying $5000 so that the girl would drop the case.
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