Arguments Against Racial Profiling
Racism is a topic that most people refuse to discuss. Some would rather believe that racism is a thing of the past and that it does not exist in today’s society. The truth of the matter is that racism has and probably will always exist in this country. Many people have heard the term “racial profiling,” or the phase “driving why black.” For many African Americans racial profiling is a form of racism. Racial profiling is also a reality most African Americans will face daily. African American males learn all too quickly or early on in life that they might be subjected to be harassed by law enforcement not because they did anything wrong, but because of the color of their skin. What is racial profiling? According to Piquero and Reitzel (2006) racial profiling is the alleged law enforcement practice of using skin color as a pretext to stop, question, or search minorities. Anytime people are stop unjustifiable because their skin color is not white that is nothing
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They all recall an era in their life where they themselves have been victims of racial profiling or driving while black. One expressed that he was pull over when he was leaving a friend house that happen to be white. The police told him the reason he was pulled over was because he was in the wrong neighborhood and wanted to know why he was there. Another one said that him and some friends was leaving a basketball tournament and was pulled over, and the policemen told them how they looked suspicious and wanted to know where they was coming from and where they going. Another one was pulled over because he was in a luxury car and the policeman believed that the car might have been stolen. These men lived in different cities, but they all had one thing in which were being victims of racial profiling. Neither one received a traffic
They all recall an era in their life where they themselves have been victims of racial profiling or driving while black. One expressed that he was pull over when he was leaving a friend house that happen to be white. The police told him the reason he was pulled over was because he was in the wrong neighborhood and wanted to know why he was there. Another one said that him and some friends was leaving a basketball tournament and was pulled over, and the policemen told them how they looked suspicious and wanted to know where they was coming from and where they going. Another one was pulled over because he was in a luxury car and the policeman believed that the car might have been stolen. These men lived in different cities, but they all had one thing in which were being victims of racial profiling. Neither one received a traffic