Persuasive Essay On Racial Discrimination

Throughout the world, there is an estimate of about 65.3 million refugees that have either been forced out of their homes or chose to willingly escape the violence or corruption they faced in their homeland. Of those millions of people, only a small percentage are given the status of refugee as many nations have strict requirements and only allow a specific amount each year. This leads to an increase in the amount of illegal immigration as many are desperate to risk their lives to for a better one then they had back home. Even as refugees are given asylum, many often face difficulties such as discrimination due to the racial stereotypes that exist as a result of negative depictions in the news and media. Although nations have generally become more open to receiving and providing aid for a significant amount of refugees seeking asylum, people’s ideology of race and the misrepresentation of the media towards immigrants prevent an even larger amount of refugees from being accepted into society.

Racial Profiling is an act of automatically defining or identifying someone based on their ethnicity. This act was most recognized during the late 1800’s in the U.S. under the Jim Crow law. It was passed in order to segregate whites and the colored in America. It fundamentally made whites superior to all. Though, in 1964 the Civil Rights Act passed stating that anybody of any ethnicity or religion are to be equal and united. However, today this law has never been truly accepted when seeing the statistics of the type of people being stopped by the police. In fact, based on the statistics of the people stopped, there is an ethnic disproportion which shows that the police use racial profiling. Even though innocent people are stopped, the

A problem we are currently facing and have been facing for quite a while is racial profiling. An individual should not be stopped on the highway or sidewalk because of their race. People should not have to live their lives in fear of being killed because of suspicion due to the color of their skin, or the stereotype they have. The individual should know their rights, and be educated on what they can and can’t do when being approached by police so that things don’t end in violence. From the point of view of the state trooper, a motorist who is stopped and searched is a potential catch, a shot at a big, career building drug bust. But most of those who are searched are totally innocent, and from their viewpoint the process looks and feels very different. You are stopped for a minor or nonexistent traffic violation; the officer scrutinizes your car carefully through the window and then tells you to step outside; he asks you pointed questions about your trip, your plans, your companions, your friends, and perhaps expresses doubts about the honesty of your answers; he asks for permission to search the car; if you agree, he rummages through your vehicle and belongings; if you refuse, he calls for backup and a police dog to sniff your car for drugs.

Being considered a white person in the United States is almost a blessing. White people are automatically given a certain amount of “white privilege” once they are born. When walking down the street, applying for a job, or university there are very little obstacles a white person will face. A non-white person is seen as threatening walking down the street, and less likely to get a job, or into a university than a white person. When a white man walks into a room people will just call him a guy, but if a black man walks into a room people will automatically refer to him as a “black guy”. This has nothing to do with how he is dressed, how he talks, or how he behaves, but all on the color of his skin. In the U.S., we are brought up to believe white is natural, and if

I feel Peggy McIntosh offers compelling points in her article, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. White people in our society tend to take for granted and not even realize how easily they can live their lives without the discrimination that others endure. They don’t live in fear of being a victim of racism because they are not used to that kind of treatment themselves. Being white is viewed as the norm in our society, while it is also normal to treat anyone who is non-white differently. People in our American society are quick to stereotype any race that is not white. Anybody who is non-white must continuously have their guards up for racism and are often labeled social unacceptable when they do not deserve to be.

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.

Individuals all around the world are faced with being racially profiled. For example the individuals that are racially profiled are usually people nonwhites. They are racially profiled because of how one person with their race has made a negative connotation with their ethnicity. The police are the ones, who usually are racially profiling others because of how a person may look “suspicious”. Although, racial profiling allows some sense of security, the people that are harmed are traumatized; therefore racial profiling needs to be stopped.

“In two short decades, between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in our nation’s prisons and jails soared from roughly 300,000 to more than 2 million. By the end of 2007, more than 7 million Americans–or one in every 31 adults–were behind bars, on probation, or on parole.” (Alexander 60) Today we are surrounded by the question, whether the law enforcement’s perception of the Fourth Amendment is corrupted allowing ethnic profiling. Although there are a variety of beneficial measures in the Fourth Amendment, there are plenty of aspects that justice is truly blind, lacking equal protection for all backgrounds. By displaying a prior inequity case of the Terry V. Ohio incident, the ramification of racial profiling and the steps that can be taken in order to propose a balanced, and secured proposition promising one’s freedom.

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.

Racial profiling is a serious problem going on in our society today. Racial profiling is a practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because their race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality used by much of the authorities. Though many authorities use this practice, it has to come to an end due to it having a negative impact on society. Racial profiling has been tried to be stopped with the End of Racial Profiling Act but it hasn’t had any luck. But the End of Racial Profiling Act should be passed because racial profiling convinces people that the targets(the people who are being “profiled”, usually minorities) are criminals and it causes a mistrust and fear from the minorities to the police.

Racial profiling is a big deal today in our society; incase you didn’t know racial profiling is the act of suspecting or targeting a person of a certain race based on a stereotype about their race. Stereotyping is the leading cause of racial profiling. Yes, it’s true, the police racially profile and are beginning to get out of control but racial profiling goes far beyond just the police. Look at the cases where it wasn’t the police who were at fault; cases like The Trayvon Martin case, the airport, the Christopher Dorner situation when the police were on the other end of things or even now where black people are taking it upon themselves to go out of their way to kill white cops. I’m not saying that the police aren’t wrong sometimes or that they never take advantage of their power but I people sometimes forget that police are human too. People as well as police officers need to remember that the police's job is to serve and protect the people and that not all police are bad. It’s also up to the citizens to be responsible and work with the police. In order to fix the problem and stop the corruption, the citizens of America need to look at the problem as a whole.

Racial profiling is a problem that continues to happen to this day. This situation is something which happens to everyone especially minorities. Minorities are more likely to be pulled over by police officers rather than white people just because of the color of their skin, which is really unfair because their time is being wasted getting pulled over when they could be doing something else. Racial profiling has been happening forever, which has caused many people to be stopped and strictly checked by police, higher chance of people getting killed, and people are not getting the rights they deserve.

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.

Will you able to function if you lived in another race’s shoes? Will you be able to function and deal with consequences of being the other race?When we were all fetuses in our mom’s tummy we as humans are not given the options to chose our race. Yet we are still being ridiculed from what we are born with. Racism is one of many elements that in the United States of America affects our society. However, there is a hidden problem that promotes racism. It is the fact that a lot of people try to make themselves believe that racism doesn 't exist. But unfortunately, it still does. Everyone knows about the problem of racism but don 't realize that they are supporting the problem by discriminating against other people 's rights but at the same

The population of the United States of America has been one of mixed race since its very beginning. Boatload upon boatload of enslaved Africans provided a labor force which would fuel the American South’s economy for many years, until national abolition and the subsequent civil rights movement created a primarily biracial population of blacks and whites. The US has come a long way since those days, and today every child born into the US is taught from an early age the evils of racism and the shameful actions committed by slave-owning US citizens in the past. From textbooks to televisions, the modern USA seemingly works tirelessly to teach its population that discrimination by race is wrong and that all races are equal. This has led to a great national complacence among whites, and a widespread belief that the US has mostly eradicated racial prejudices. But it is not so, and despite a population almost entirely composed of people who would not consider themselves racists, racism still pervades in the US. In many cases modern racism occurs at the hands of whites who almost absolutely are completely unaware of their discriminatory actions. In the films “Frozen River” and “The Visitor” racism was touched on repeatedly and played an evident part in the messages they were trying to portray.