Racial Profiling
Argumentative Essay: Should Racial Profiling be Practiced?
Ever since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, America has been on high alert because of terrorists. People are hesitant to get on airplanes because of the other people that they sometimes see on the planes. They sometimes see persons of the same race of those who attacked on September 11 and are skeptical of them. This is known as racial profiling, judging a book by its cover. Law enforcement should not be able to use racial profiling as a practice of capturing criminals or illegal immigrants. There are so many different cultures that have had people from that culture do something wrong, and now others become wary of people of that ethnic background. Besides being morally wrong, racial profiling is in violation of federal laws and can cause harm psychologically. This is not right because we all have equal chance of being someone who we are not.
As stated from the Oxford English Dictionary, racial profiling is originally and chiefly U.S. selection for scrutiny by law enforcement based on race or ethnicity rather than on behavioral or evidentiary criteria; discrimination or stereotyping on racial or ethnic grounds. People are sometimes judged by their race or ethnicity because of what others of the same race or ethnicity have done. What gives us the right to judge someone just because of their race or their ethnic background? Everyone should be treated the same no matter what ethnic background they come from.
We all know that Middle Eastern persons were responsible for the attacks on September 11th, but that was only a specific group of them. Just because some people did this, it does not mean that the whole race has the same intentions. Let’s say A is a certain race and B is another. When a certain number of people of A perform a significant, heinous act towards B, should others in A be judged the same way? No, not all people are going to be the same. Daily, people are judged because of
Ever since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, America has been on high alert because of terrorists. People are hesitant to get on airplanes because of the other people that they sometimes see on the planes. They sometimes see persons of the same race of those who attacked on September 11 and are skeptical of them. This is known as racial profiling, judging a book by its cover. Law enforcement should not be able to use racial profiling as a practice of capturing criminals or illegal immigrants. There are so many different cultures that have had people from that culture do something wrong, and now others become wary of people of that ethnic background. Besides being morally wrong, racial profiling is in violation of federal laws and can cause harm psychologically. This is not right because we all have equal chance of being someone who we are not.
As stated from the Oxford English Dictionary, racial profiling is originally and chiefly U.S. selection for scrutiny by law enforcement based on race or ethnicity rather than on behavioral or evidentiary criteria; discrimination or stereotyping on racial or ethnic grounds. People are sometimes judged by their race or ethnicity because of what others of the same race or ethnicity have done. What gives us the right to judge someone just because of their race or their ethnic background? Everyone should be treated the same no matter what ethnic background they come from.
We all know that Middle Eastern persons were responsible for the attacks on September 11th, but that was only a specific group of them. Just because some people did this, it does not mean that the whole race has the same intentions. Let’s say A is a certain race and B is another. When a certain number of people of A perform a significant, heinous act towards B, should others in A be judged the same way? No, not all people are going to be the same. Daily, people are judged because of
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