Inequality Pertains To the City Of Baltimore

This article delves into the history of racial discrimination and social injustice in Baltimore, focusing on the city's social structure, the impact of inequality on its residents, and the causes of riots and social disruptions. It examines factors such as unemployment, poverty, ethnic disparity, health issues, income disparity, and education deprivation among African Americans in Baltimore. The article also discusses specific events, such as the death of Freddie Gray, that have highlighted the need for social justice and equality in the city.

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Inequality Pertains To the City Of Baltimore
INTRODUCTION
The city of Baltimore has a history of racial discrimination and social and environmental
injustice between the black and white (Grove & Laura 530). The social structure of de jure
and de facto segregation has abstained from the development of sustainable future policies.
The critical analysis of historical evidence of redlining and displacements from the 1930s has
shown the duality of structure. Blacks were discriminated against the white. Although they
were living in the same segregated city at the same time, their behavior constrained from
social and economic inequalities.
To understand the complex legacy of inequality in Baltimore a critical analysis of
cultural hegemony of white supremacy over blacks needs to conceptualize (Scriven 44-49).
The social, environmental and economic injustice has its root causes in the historical patterns
of socialization in Baltimore city.
HOMICIDES OF BLACK MALES
2015 was the deadliest year in the history of racial discrimination and social injustice in
Baltimore. 344 blacks were shot dead in the daylight on the streets, many were among the age
of 18 to 30, and some were toddlers (Chase). The Black human rights activists, analysts, and
residents said that blacks are deprived of legitimate business and job opportunities and they
are caught up in many drug trade, robbery, and theft activities (Scriven 119).
All such social phenomenon has led to the brutal gun down of the black in April 2015.
It is the result of subsequent events at the beginning of the year. Black scholars have

researched that police is also involved in the mass shooting of unarmed blacks (Pratt-Harris et
al., 371).
STRUCTURE OF POWER IN BALTIMORE
Blacks are placed in a number of positions in the city of the United States’ state of Maryland.
The school teachers are black; the mayor is also black etcetera. The blacks human rights
activist and analysts argued that it is not about the color. The African American is, although,
given some positions in the last few years but the city is controlled and influenced by white
supremacy.
The resources and institutions of Baltimore are controlled by the White Americans.
The social ecology of the city has shaped the lives of Black Americans. The relationship
between the people and social structure has influenced their cognitive thinking and led to
victims’ cognitive distortions (Grove et al., 371-377).
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED SEGREGATION
The government of Baltimore city has sponsored segregation by the adoption of residential
segregation ordinance (Rothstein 205) in response to the purchase of a home by the Black
Yale-Law School graduate. A number of riots were observed in which police also proved to
be intimate enemies of African Americans. Police was cold towards blacks in civil discords
and civil discourses. Baltimore mayor also suggested that black must be isolated in slums and
quarantine from the white neighborhood to avoid infectious diseases by them.
The negative framing of social races has turned hot and reactive to violence. In 1968,
a commissioner appointed by President had pointed out that white Americans have not
anticipated how the redlining and displacement have led to the system failure and lack of
control over the institutions in Baltimore. The weaponization of chaos is the extrinsic result
of the intrinsic social disparity between the Negros and white Americans (Quigley).
RIOTS IN BALTIMORE

There is a long history of riots due to social inequality and injustice faced by negros. 1n 1892,
an African American activist-journalist published a pamphlet named “Southern Horrors:
Lynch Law in All its Phases” in which she tried to uncover all the violence, attacks, and
disparity occurred to Negros (Quigley). She was hidden by unknown sources and government
denial of this as disinformation and indeterminant (Steiner & Waisbord). The multi
perspectivism over the issue has further aggravated the disparities between the two social
races.
The environmental manipulation by the authorities has led to social injustice. The
class struggle of Negros has oppressed by the dominant police force in the city. This
pamphlet revealed that black African Americans are sinned against due to racial
discrimination and white supremacy rather than sinning. But the belief formation of white
Americans had not led them to accept that their social constructivism had invoked the heated
and reactive individualism constructivism of the blacks.
Another example of cultural and social riot is Joshua Beal just four days before the
Presidential election in the United States of America. Beal was labeled an aggressor by the
dominant forces of the city. In response to the killings of Joshua Beal blacks have declared
the protest near Mount Greenwood Neighborhood in the consolation of his family and to root
out such brutal treatment of forces. The boy who initiated the protest was threatened to be
killed near Catholic High School if he did not stop the protest. But people protested with the
slogan of “Black Lives Matter.”
This was counter-protest by the white Americans with the slogan like "Blue Lives
Matter" and "White Lives Matter." Such events in Baltimore raised the significance of
cultural and social implications, and the role of journalism is questioned here to depict the
true scenarios and ground realities of the city for inculcation and formulation of policies of
social justice and social equality.

DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY – A HOMICIDE
In 2015, 12 April, the Freddie Gray was arrested by the police for possessing a knife
which police officers claimed to be illegal in the law. The police said that he fell down and
went to coma and we had transferred him to a trauma center. But later on, the medical report
had depicted the death is not accidental; he had spinal injuries in the back, and poorly taken
to hospital. The medical report has proved his death a homicide. The police officers involved
in this case continuously denied their vicious acts. The investigation was carried on against
the six police officers, and their pay was suspended by the authority.
This event of the brutal act showed the non-contemplation thinking of the anti-black
forces. These riots and killings are the results of social inequality and social injustice. Such
environmental manipulation has further segregated the Baltimore city of Maryland State.
CAUSES OF RIOTS AND SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS IN BALTIMORE
The genesis of hostility in the city of Maryland state of the United States of America has
several reasons. The historical events and contemplation due to white supremacy over black
Negros have structured the malevolent actions of a suppressed ethnic group. The poverty,
unemployment, ethnic disparity, psychiatric distress, and segregation from the mainstream
population has resulted in the events of riots, looting, robbery, thefts, and drug trade etcetera
(Ananat 34-37)
1- Unemployment among the African American. The unemployment rate in Baltimore is
5.6 percent, but the unemployment among the African Americans is three times more
than among the white Americans. Out of the total unemployed population, more than
56 percent are black Negros, and among them, more than 14 percent are between the
age of 18-22 years. Due to planned and maintained social inequality Black Americans
do not get equal opportunity for a job, business, and work (Ananat 58-66).

2- Poverty in Baltimore. The Baltimore lunch movement started to overcome the
problem of food shortages for kids. The kids of Public Schools of Baltimore gain food
for a free or low price if they qualify for it. Repost has said that 1.84 percent of
children in the public schools do not qualify for free or low price food lunch. Almost
one-fourth of the residents of the Baltimore live below the poverty line and spend
their lives hand to mouth. The poverty rate increases from 38 percent in 1970 to 55
percent in 2010. Under the United States census of 2009 to 2013, almost 23.8 percent
of the inhabitants live under the poverty line. Among them, in 2009, alone 29 percent
were children living under the poverty line. Despite having the location of highest
income country (Muntaner et al., 209), Baltimore is less empowered, and the
statistical analysis shows the symbolic compositions of drawbacks.
3- Ethnic Disparity and Ethnocentrisms In Baltimore. Baltimore has a population of
622,000 out which 63 percent constitute the population of African Americans
(Quigley 2015). Although, in recent cultural and social developments, African
Americans were allotted some positions in institutions black analyst and activist still
feel that resources are controlled by white American and they are authorized to take
the vital decision of the city government.
4- Health Issues of African Americans. Although, African Americans are more in
statistical analysis the health conditions are worsening than the white Americans. For
example; the ratio of death of African Americans due to HIV/AIDS is eight times
more than the white population, and the ratio of death due to diabetes is two times
more than the white Americans (Quigley 2015). The ratio of death of babies of black
American is nine times more before the age of one than the babies of white
Americans. The difference in life expectancy among the black and white is twenty-six
years. Those who live in the neighborhood of Baltimore lived more than those who

live far away in disadvantages. The issue of health insurance is also depended upon
the low income given to black workers than white workers (Muntaner et al., 225-227).
5- Income Disparity among the Black And White Americans in Baltimore. The critical
analysis of a model of social stratification and social class division and the legation of
segregation by the city government have developed the cognitive thinking, and social
behavior of people is such a manner that white Americans have internalized this
knowledge and practice as just and custom. Black American receives less salary or
wages than the white against the equal number of working hours. The studies of
inequalities by the theory-driven indicators of social stratification like labor market
segmentation, human capital, and control over productive assets have revealed the
data against the expectation of African American and human rights activist. The
median income of a white household is two times more than the median income of the
black household. The net worth of one-third of the household in the city of Baltimore
is zero.
6- Education Deprivation To The Black Americans In Baltimore. African Americans
have a less education rate of 13 percent. Latinos are on the second lowest with 24
percent education rate in Baltimore. The white Americans are the second highest with
the 59 percent education rate in which students are graduated while the Asians have
the highest rate of 68 percent in which students are graduated. Only 13 percent of
African Americans become able to complete graduation.

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