How Black People Became Victims of Collective Punishment in America

Anold English proverb suggests that "the <a href="https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/84261/an-english-proverb-meaning-the-good-suffer-with-the-bad" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">good suffer</a> with the bad," while this may be true. Indeed, many innocent people have suffered for the misdeeds of others throughout history; we should consider the injustice of such a proposition. Shane Darcey, lecturer at the Irish Center for Human Rights and author of <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/13859" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Collective Responsibility and Accountability under International Law</a>, described collective punishment as punishing someone "without regard to individual responsibility for the deed or event." There are numerous examples of collective punishment throughout history. Indeed, one could argue that Black people have been the victims of collective punishment since the late 1500s and early 1600s, condemned to a lower caste for the color of their skin, their facial features, and even their hair texture, features they were born with. <a href="https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/how-black-people-became-victims-of-collective-punishment-in-america-ba49430f7d88">Read More</a>