Persuasive Against Racial Profiling

Since the birth of our nation, racial profiling has been an issue longstanding and troubling among minority groups and still continues to exhibit severe consequences in communities.

Even the United States struggles with issues of racial discrimination despite being a society highly based on immigrants and multicultural diversity. On one hand, people frown on treatment based on race, whether that is on an individual or group level. On the other, people are tired and annoyed by the seemingly constant call of discrimination. All of these feelings culminate into the debate pertaining to the use of racial profiling. Likewise, there are some individuals that hold a certain level of acceptance in regard to racial profiling. However, what is lost in the process because of that acceptance? There are many components that need to be thought about in reference to the use of racial profiling. In addition, it can be viewed

"I don't want to talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. Racial profiling is not an effective law enforcement tool." -- Eric Holder, 82nd Attorney General of the United States

When people act on their stereotypical views, that is when stereotyping becomes a big concern and can affect others.Stereotyping is the main cause that leads to profiling. Anyone of any race can experience profiling, and racial profiling discriminates and victimizes people who may not necessarily be committing a crime.

There are many types of racism in America that cause people to make accusations against law enforcement for discrimination. One type of racism is racial profiling. It is a strategy that encourages police officers to stop and question minorities only because of their race. Racial profiling is a serious issue of social importance in the United States. George Will opens by casting doubt with his tone on the idea that racial profiling is a serious issue in America. His tone is sarcastic and critical of how politicians and news people are talking about the issue, and The focus of the article is to use Heather Mac Donald as the primary evidence for Will's view that racial profiling is not necessarily bad. I believe there is racism still happening to black people and Muslim people. Racial profiling is an unfavorable thing, and it can be a huge problem lead to a scuffle and law enforcement should work to stop racism forever in the whole world.

Have you ever walked into a fairly, busy gas station, felt one of the cashiers suddenly lift his eyes off of his newspaper and watched only your every move? He’s probably racial profiling. Have you ever saw someone walk into the gas station who looked as if they were ready to rob the place? You’re probably racial profiling. Racial profiling has been an issue for many years; since slavery till present day. Racial profiling is when someone, not just the law enforcement, judges an individual by their race or ethnicity for suspicion of crime. Some believe that racial profiling is an issue that needs to be solved immediately and some believe racial profiling can be an essential in life. Those who believe that racial profiling needs to be stopped, believe that racial profiling causes chaos and a division between people. Those who believe that racial profiling is a necessity, believe that racial profiling can be a useful tool to keep the streets safe.

How would you feel about being judged by your appearance and beliefs? Would it anger you?, Bother you?, Or hurt you? Racial profiling is known as being suspected for a crime or doing something wrong because of what you look like, believe in, or your ethnic background. Most people that experience racial profiling are colored, hispanic, middle eastern, or just don't have the skin tone of a caucasian person. These races and ethnicities get blamed for all types of crimes way more than a caucasian man or woman. Racial profiling does not only deal with being convicted for a crime but also with the consequence of the supposed crime. If a caucasian man and an hispanic man were both convicted of the same crime under the same category of the crime, the hispanic man would still get a much defective and unpropitious consequence. Even though racial profiling is said to be illegal because it violates the U.S. Constitution's word of ¨protection under the law to all freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.¨, it is still reoccurring every day in millions of places in the United States. The innumerable discrimination of these races and ethnicities cause communities to be alienated or be isolated from law enforcement, create difficulty for community policing efforts, and cause the law enforcement to lose trust amid the people they're supposed to protect.

Shoshanna Hebshi was a 36-year-old woman from Ohio who is half-Arab and half-Jewish. On September 11, 2011 she was removed from a Frontier Airlines flight, along with two other men. She reported to have been “placed in a cell, where she was ordered to strip naked, squat, and cough while an officer looked at her” (Warikoo, 2013). Hebshi later found out that they were removed because people on the plane complained about two of them going to the bathroom. With racial profiling “law enforcement targets individuals for suspicion of crime based on their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin” (Warikoo, 2013). Hebshi and the two other men were targeted because they were “possibly of Arab descent”, profiling them as possible criminals based off their skin color (Warikoo, 2013).

Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin, how many more lives must be lost in order for society to put an end to this? It is sad to say how many lives have been taken away due to racial profiling. It is also shocking to say how anyone never hears about a white person being killed due to racial profiling. From African American, Muslims, Middle Easterners, Native Americans, and Hispanics, when will it all stop? How many more lives is it going to take for us put an end to racial profiling? Racial profiling has been going on since the earliest 21st century, out of all the ethnicities listed above, African American ( Black ) is the one who has been exposed to the most. In this research paper and the whole

A major issue that has been at the forefront of the topic of race in America is racial profiling. This practice of targeting individuals based on the individual’s race is not new and has been in use for many many years. However it has recently come to national attention with the killing of unarmed black teenagers by police officers. The issue of racial profiling not only highlights the lack of equality in America but the issue of policemen using excessive force when dealing with criminal activity.

As a child, I’m sure almost all of us have had mini class field trips to the library. We go in and pick the brightest, visually appealing, eye-catching book cover and convince ourselves that the deceiving beauty we see on the outside, will certainly define the content inside of the book. We avoid picking the books that are simple with fewer pictures and have pages that are either colored on by our naughty little selves or aren’t attractive enough for our seven year old minds, and simply toss the book back onto the shelf without even bothering to read the content that it holds inside. The librarian notices and tells us the seven-word response that we as kids forget: Don’t judge a book by its cover. We carry on those seven words every library visit but we forget to use them even in real life situations as adults. Racial profiling is targeting a person based on a stereotype about their race. To convey my position in this speech, I believe Racial profiling is morally incorrect. Racial profiling sends a straight forward message to all individuals that judgment on criminal felony is based on pure skin color; it violates the fourteenth amendment; and it also leads to racially - motivated violence. For all these reasons, I stand against the act of racial profiling due to the negative effects it holds in our society.

Profiling is “the act or process of extrapolation information about a person based on known traits or tendencies”, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The practice of racial profiling is coming up with these “known traits or tendencies” and using them when interacting with people of a particular race, without considering the individual. The issue with these generalizations are that they become engrained in society and have subsequent consequences on those they are imposed upon. In the case of black men in America, the repercussions of this idea are seen in most facets of life. Predominately, the wage gap between white men and black men is an ongoing issue that is linked to preconceptions. Additionally, the achievement gap in the classroom has seen disparities that have prevented black men from having the necessary foundation to be successful. Ultimately, racial profiling has most notably been exposed by the actions of law enforcement and the criminalization of black men. In Dominique Morisseau’s “Night Vision”, the character Ayana reveals how racial profiling black men has integrated itself into the subconscious, which has surfaced in negative impacts on economic, education, and legal outcomes in America.

If you were black, Hispanic, or colored, then you were more likely to be stopped by the police. Racial profiling refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. This is similar to criminal or offender profiling, the analysis of a person's psychological and behavioural characteristics, so as to assess whether they are likely to have committed a crime under investigation. Both seem to be similar, but make no mistake that racial profiling is illegal, immoral, and irrational. Racial profiling should not be the only thing used when making an arrest because there are other means to root out potential

“More than 250 innocent black lives were killed by police officers in 2016. Over 73 percent of suspects pulled over were african american due to the suspicion of drug use yet 76 percent of drug users are white and only 15 percent are african american and also those imprisoned from drugs are 46 percent black and only 26 percent white” Because of the color of someone's skin should this make them any less of a person than another person out there?.. People should not be alienated because of the way they look, but yet all of this happens every single day everywhere. Racial profiling is a source used by police officers to determine if a person is a suspect or not based upon their race or ethnicity. Racial profiling is an obvious violation of the

Profiling has always been in our society, in the United States and all around the world. Some based more on racial characteristics and sexual orientation, rather than social status and intellectual abilities. During the past years, it has become more than frequent the cases of police brutality, in most occasions where cops end up abusing their authority and force by hurting and murdering Africa American civilians by the simple assumption that because their skin is dark they represent a threat and have no good intentions. These occurrences seem like won’t have a stop until the people making these mistakes end up with repercussions for their actions. Also, another flaw in our society are stereotypes that people use judging people by ethnicity and how they look , and as much as we try to act as if these things don’t exist or are rarely happening, it is something that we cannot hide and take part of our lives on a daily basis. The movie “Paris is Burning” is a good foundation to this argument because the characters face many adversities for considering themselves of a different gender, and being constantly put down and told that they’re not something that they feel like they really are. This is what the term “double consciousness” by W.E.B Dubois means, how people throughout history born in the United States into a non-white family with every right as any other American, feels like a complete stranger oppressed by others because they don’t get the same equality and treatment as