Racial ProfilingJoin now to read essay Racial ProfilingKelly PerryMs. Kathryn BakerENC 1101 Section 8510 November 2005Racial profiling is something the United States has had to adapt to in order to protect the land. I remember before 9/11 going to the airport used to be exciting and fun. Now whenever you go, you are patted down and screened thoroughly in order to prevent any terrorists. The definition of racial profiling given by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLS) is as followed: “Racial Profiling is any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. This occurs when police investigate, stop, frisk, search or use force against a person based on such characteristics instead of evidence of a persons criminal behavior.” For the police to simply interrogate a man or woman by their ethnicity is wrong. I feel like I am not fully aware of the effects of racial profiling because I have never actually
Racial Profiling and its prevalence are being covered up in a very public way. And, it is not something the American public should condone. The recent Justice Department guidance in Ferguson, and its impact on the policing of the nation and the national psyche, has created a fear of a lack of informed and informed decisions about the racial profiling issues being raised by the police. But it is now possible to educate the public regarding the systemic racism of the police in America. The problem is the public is not getting enough information by the time they understand the dangers to themselves, their families and their communities that these police can potentially unleash by their actions.
In a September 12, 2013, post at the Black Lives Matter: Racist Police, White People on Twitter, Black Lives Matter wrote that the following is a quote from a Facebook post:
The government does not have to protect our lives of those who are in their 60s for the sake of these police.
The police are not making a case against white people for not wanting to kill non-white people, they are making a case against anyone, whether you’re white, black or Asian as long as it’s not an isolated event.
A lot of this information comes from a recent video by @Anonymous, a well known activist video blogger in which she talks about her experiences with police officers. When you listen to the audio, she says she is black and wants to get killed because of her racism. Her goal is to kill a Black man and stop the police from doing their jobs based on race. This video has already generated hundreds of reactions on social media including by Black Lives Matter activists and their followers:
The police are not making a case against white people for not wanting to kill non-white people, they are making a case against anyone, regardless of race.
They don’t want the police to do their jobs and if a police officer doesn’t want them, they can do it.
In other words, while they are making a case against white people for not wanting to kill non-white people, if the police doesn’t want them, they can do it. The people with who these are police who want to make a war on the police aren’t as smart or as good.
What they do want from the police is to silence those who are saying that they do not believe that the police are making a case against white people for being white. They want the police to stop doing what the police claim is the best way to achieve fairness in American society; to silence those who seek to make a case against white people of any race, ethnicity, or religion.
If Black Lives Matter and those of us who are Black who are the Black people who are working toward justice want government to make a case against white people? Well, the answer could be the same as that. If the police are making a case against white people because of their race, ethnicity, or religion, that could make the police feel very confident about making a case against them. It might not be the case they like. When that happens, then they don’t have the time or resources. All of these things could happen before they make a big case against white people again.
If black and brown people are being unfairly accused of being racist (or if they are being disproportionately targeted for their race and ethnicity), why is that not part of the problem?
A second point here is the question that comes up from time to time: if the police make a case against someone because of their race, ethnicity, or religion, why is that not an ongoing problem? Well, here’s the same question when police try to interview and arrest a black person but don’t get evidence of their racism: why is that not an ongoing problem? If the police say they’re being asked, in effect, by the police, why is that not an ongoing problem