Black Girls Matter Essay

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placing them into the system at an early age, making black girls used to the criminal justice system and likely to be sent to prisons at a young age, and making it the norm for them that prison is the place for them.

The reasoning into why black girls are more harshly disciplined than any other groups are few and far between according to page 29. All the researchers who study this area all state that there needs to be more investigations and studies into this matter for better data. But data does show that girls who face extreme consequences, are more likely to drop out of school and become unemployed and other social factors, due to dropping out is carried out by negative consequences. By dropping out of high school, it not only carries negative consequences but creates a social disorganization in their neighborhood according to the article. As well as functions of females such as familial responsibilities, that include parenting, and caring for siblings. Especially when girls have to drop out of school due to being pregnant, leaving those girls having to take care of their children as well as trying to find a way to have a job, to support their family, in which is hard, because they had to drop out of high school in order to support the family.

The consequences are likely to follow if we do not take the report seriously and ignore it that, this would continue to happen and statistics would continue to rise, and prison population will rise as normal. As discussed in class, blacks dominate the prison population and female prison population is on the rise as females are starting to commit more crimes and get convicted of illegal activities. And such comments would be made as stated “the teachers don’t care at all. They do sweep-ups in the hallway. If they see you in the hallway with no pass, you’ve got to leave automatically. They do it every day. Literally half of the school gets kicked out by end of the day.” And “you can tell because the teacher who just wants to get paid, if there’s something wrong with out, they won’t bother asking if you’re OK, or if you need anything.” Or “they can’t be trusted or they are loud and rowdy, ghetto and stuff like that. Ignorant.”. Comments like those, will continue to exist and those girls will not get the attention needed to bring attention of problems that face the girls. The consequences that are likely if we take the report seriously is that there will be more studies and possibly scrutiny in the public school systems and higher education level. Leaving school officials and police to diversity training, as well as all genders, all races, all sexualities or social class to face the same consequence.