Racial Profiling And Discrimination In The United States

Can you imagine going somewhere and feeling like everybody is staring at you or talking about you because you are somewhat different from everyone else. Being different doesn’t mean you are not part of the world and doesn’t make it okay to get singled out and targeted on because of being different. Every race at one point, has experienced discrimination. As children growing up, we are taught to not judge a book by its cover but that’s easier said than done. Making judgements about something without having prior knowledge seems to be a part of human nature and human’s basic way of thinking. It is something humans start doing at a young age which then becomes a learned habit. Because of this, changing your behavior can become very difficult. Targeting a certain race and discriminating against them is wrong. Discrimination is something that
According to Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove “Sojourners Magazine”, published on March 2016, it lists names of African American young men who have been killed in the hands of police officers for no legimate reason and never got justice for their deaths. The police officers responsible for murdering these young men should not have gone scott free because they are the “law” They should have been prosecuted and dealt with. Doesn’t really make it right when everyone associated with a race that is associated in the increase of crime rates is discriminated along with the rest and seen as a suspect just because. There have been more similar cases where police officers misjudge a person of color and ended their life and was never prosecuted for it. Unjust treatment by the police officers and the criminal justice system not only affects a person, but also affects their families and the whole community. This is not what equality