The world we live in today is very media driven. The media can change people's attitudes and perspectives depending on the situation. For example, the media has initialized the …show more content…
They assume "someone who is brown is a criminal." Passengers on the plane feared that they were terrorist just because the two Arab looking men used the restroom. Hebshi and the two others had done nothing suspicious but was detained anyway due to racial profiling. What happened to her was a part of a border problem profiling of Arab-Americans, Muslims, African-Americans, and others over the past decade.
Racial profiling is an ongoing problem that African Americans have been dealing with since the beginning of time. To some people it is obvious that racial profiling still exists in America, others do not care enough to talk about it. Just because it is not affecting their lives, they see no reason to address it. African-Americans are most likely to get stopped and searched by police, even though they're less likely to be found committing a crime. Police prejudice and racial profiling are the reasons why there are so many false arrests, convictions, and deaths of African