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National Black Women's Justice Institute

Karisma King John Jay Community College Gen 101 12/13/2021

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National Black Women's Justice Institute The National Black Women's Justice Institute (NBWJI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to eliminating gender and race imbalances in the justice processes that impact Black girls, women, and their families through survey, technical support, state schooling, civic participation, and advocacy for efficient and educated policies. The NBWJI is doing a mixedmethods study on Black women, TGNC people's encounters with police officers. AfricanAmerican female employees are paid less than whites. Black American female applicants are less likely to be recruited into steady and well-paying employment in fragmented job markets. They are less likely to be selected for advancement into leadership roles in their respective companies, even if their qualifications are comparable or greater than those of their White colleagues. An organization like NBWJI should ensure that it resists this sort of discrimination in different ways using different tools. The challenges and obstacles that the Black population in America faces are not restricted to Black males; Black women employees in various companies, stores, malls, and organizations confront similar concerns. Worse, women are subjected to gender inequalities, and their abilities are frequently undervalued due to limited work options. The situation with Black women is exacerbated not just by their anticipated motherly duty in the home and managing that with professional obligations, but also since Black males frequently treat them with far less regard than women of other races. White women are either "feared" or respected more by Black males than black women. The NBWJI is committed to breaking down racial and gender obstacles for Black girls, women, and families. The group addresses criminalization, domestic violence, economic marginalization, and other concerns.

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Domestic violence is defined as violent or aggressive conduct within the house, usually including the abuse and violence of a spouse. As per the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Abuse Report, black women in the United States are disproportionately susceptible to domestic abuse, with a greater lifetime incidence of sexual violence, physical violence, and psychological abuse than women of other races (Akhmedshina, 2020). This susceptibility rises with disadvantaged position and systemic drawback: women of color with lower wages, staying in under-resourced neighborhoods, younger in age, handicapped, or queer had greater incidences of domestic abuse. From the 1990s, politicians and carceral feminists in the United States have proposed criminal legal tactics to combat domestic abuse, like prosecution, policing, and incarceration. These techniques, however, are more destructive or ineffective for victims who are Black, gay, immigrant, handicapped, or otherwise oppressed. The NBWJI group has chosen to abolish structural injustice at the heart of policies that regulate institutions such as public assistance, child welfare services, housing authority, the criminal judicial framework, and others that frequently fail and damage Black girls and women (NBWJI, 2021). They also advocate for increased service provision for victims of gender-based aggression by separating services from lawyers' offices and promoting culturally accepting programs conducted by directly affected Black women. Furthermore, they advocate for legislation, like New York's Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, which allows courts and lawyers to consider domestic abuse as a mitigating element, lessening a person's guilt and merit in a lighter punishment. NBWJI endorses the appeal of anti-violence groups, BIPOC-led communities, and organizations to protect survivors. It decriminalizes surviving, which entails tackling laws and practices that penalize rather than safeguard survivors, like obligatory arrests, inability to

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safeguard rules, and the homelessness criminalization and street economies (prostitution and drug traffickers). Eliminating police officers from schools: The Guidance Not Criminalization in Education Act, for instance, may outlaw the utilization of government finances for sustaining and increasing presence of police in institutions and would create a $5 billion funding scheme to assist schools that decide to spend in nurses, counselors, mental health experts, and traumainformed personnel (NBWJI, 2021). Furthermore, it diverts much-needed funds from the criminal justice system and reinvests them in the necessities of survivors and their societies: This is happening in many cities around the country. NBWJI has an associate who works closely with the executive director to create and conduct study and assessment initiatives that use an intersectional framework to study how racism and gender affect the punishment and criminalization of Black girls, women, and genderno and whom women persons addition, an intersectional framework is essential for reducing gender and race prejudice in our criminal justice system (Gillborn, 2015). The intersectional framework also assists NBWJI in investigating how "daily" contacts with cops impose violence and suffering on Women of color and TGNC persons, particularly their emotional health and beliefs, and experiences of security in their societies. Intersectional justice views prejudice and injustice as systematic, organizational, and systemic rather than human intentions. As a result, NBWJI may accomplish intersectional justice by assuring fair distribution of resources and opportunities, such as education system, social and health insurance system, labor market, taxation, media, the housing market, and loan and bank framework. According to Lorde (2021), women reacting to racism are angry; angry at exclusions, unchallenged privilege, racial misconceptions, quietness, ill-use, defensiveness, stereotyping, misnaming, co-optation, and betrayal. Ignoring the issue may give the sense that the NBWJI

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does not think it essential enough or, worse, that it does not acknowledge racism as an issue. Finally, silence on this problem contradicts any statements made by the NBWJI that it promotes diversity, and it can harm the NBWJI's reputation among workers and consumers who respect such principles. As a result, the NBWJI takes black women's prejudice personally, adopting Lorde's approach of expressing fury to secure justice in the struggle against all forms of oppression. Anti-racism education must never be done to tick a box, but instead to teach and inspire constructive change. Educating alone is insufficient to change people's minds. Because of unconscious prejudice, racism occurs in attitudes, cultural signals, beliefs, and stereotypes. Organizations may actively minimize bias by training employees and establishing systems, rules, and aspirations that foster a culture of inclusion and diversity. Furthermore, it is the role of management to showcase their dedication to variety and the worth it delivers to the organization and to keep others responsible. Additionally, they must openly explain their position on racial prejudice, what will not be permitted, and the repercussions for violations. Racism of any kind, regardless of status or title, must never be disregarded, condoned, or allowed.

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References Gillborn, D. (2015). Intersectionality, critical race theory, and the primacy of racism. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(3), 277-287. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800414557827 Lorde, A. (2021). Age, race, class, and sex: Women redefining difference. Campus Wars, 191198. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429038556-22 NBWJI. (2021). NBWJI.org. https://www.nbwji.org Akhmedshina, F. (2020). Violence against women: a form of discrimination and human rights violations. Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal, 2020(1), 13-23....