Rodrick Rhoads 'Racial Profiling'

Just what is racial profiling? Racial profiling is a law enforcement and security agency practice that encourages officers to stop, search, and investigate people based on race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. While racial profiling is most commonly committed against ethnic minorities, many instances of racial profiling occur in reaction to specific crimes, making any racial or cultural group subject to more intensive scrutiny by the authorities. (ebscohost.com) This is what I think bout racial profiling, it like it occurs when the police targets someone for investigation on the basis of that person's race, national origin, or ethnicity. Examples are the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic

I saw racism in the movie for example when the cops target a Suv because they saw a colored couple, but when a white coupled pass by they don’t stop them or anything. The cop takes advantage of the colored girl because the cops are white and know they

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.

Paraphrase: The author stresses how the shooting of a law enforcement officer by an African

The rest of the film is about the obstacles that main character has to face because of racist remarks against black people and stereotypes. I like the way the director exposed common stereotypes, represented in the movie as the

In another event, some racist white boys attack and hit Odessa’s daughter and son for having darker skin and being ‘idiot coons.’ This is one of many examples of racism being a factor. The ultimate clash of the subordinate (whites) and insubordinate (African-Americans) groups comes at end of the film with the mob seen at the carpool lot. This shows racism, discrimination and stereotyping all in one. It is amazing to me to see both how far and how little we have come as a society.

Today although in some places crosses are still being burned and people are still being lynched by police in America the KKK are not as prominent as before, now Blacks die at the hands of the police, those sworn to serve and protect specifically in the south were the KKK originated. This is evident by a case that happened in November 2013, when a Black man named Alfred Wright’s car broke down in Jasper, Texas. He began walking for help and was found dead one week later with his ear cut off and his eye missing.

What comes to your mind when you think of an interaction an authoritative figure (police, teacher, principal)? In the African American community it is usually fear and anxiety of the motive of the authoritative figure, especially if you are a male. The intersection of race and gender for the African American male provides a basis for premature judgment by many authoritative figures in their lives. African American males deserve the same equality to succeed in life as any other human being without the threat of the damned if you do, damned if you don’t moniker that defines the functional ability

Race has been a part of people's judgement since its inception. We've heard many different situations of times where race has affected what people can do, how they're treated, and much more. A lot of the time, race is the first thing you notice about a person. When describing a person, race is often the first thing you tell someone. For a bulk of the 20th century, people in the United States were seperated by race. There were water fountains for just white people or an area of the buses just for black people. A lot of the times, this was because the majority of white people didn't want to mix with the black people. The black schools were often worse, as were the entrances and areas of the bus. This was eventually ended and is no longer around

Throughout history Black men have been accustomed to being profiled, interrogated harassed by whites, and accused of accusations. Racial profiling has been a major component of America’s History. History has repeated itself and Black men are still facing the same limitations as they ancestors experienced. Lynching’s and accusations was a historic experience for blacks in the 1940’s. Today, we see Blacks arrested and incarcerated at higher rates then any other racial group. As Michelle Alexander research demonstrates incarcerating blacks is our “New Jim Crow”.

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed from a chokehold by an NYPD officer who had approached him for selling single cigarettes. On December 3, 2014 the grand jury did not indict the officer, rousing the public into an outrage of such racial profiling. Racial profiling is any use of race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin as a way to decide who should be investigated by law enforcement (Grabianowski 1). It is one of many controversial ways law enforcement profiles suspects. Since the time of Martin Luther King Jr., many claim that such conflict has ended eons ago, but the problem is still a festering wound on our society. Racial profiling causes citizens to distrust their law enforcement, is based on false assumptions, and is opposed by the Constitution.

When it comes to the African American community in the United States, the identifying term Nigger is one that has many meanings, but no matter the meaning, its use is usually met with controversy (The Racial Slur Database Nigger). Kaffir is a South African identifying term that also refers to those of African descent, and of a darker skin tone, and is filled with the same social controversy (The Racial Slur Database Kaffir). Two articles found on the internet, one from Florida and one from South Africa, bring to light when these terms have been used in a derogatory manner and their use has resulted in the loss of someone’s job. From yesterday to today, the terms Nigger and Kaffir are harmful slurs that need to be fixed though the coming together of society.

I hope these words and this moment of truth can serve as some extra motivation to you… That is a quote(tweet) by Kanye West. That tweet serves for what I mean I hope these truths I serve as motivation for this issue to be resolved and that issue is racial profiling and how it shouldn’t be implied in law enforcement or security.

America still to this day has an immense problem with racial profiling. It has become very controversial in the documentary Us Against the World. The basketball players of Cordia High School have been through what many have called discrimination and many other also tend to disagree with that notion. The team has been through many obstacles trying to get their coach back and trying to better their lives. Other basketball teams say it is unfair that the Cordia students may have been favored then selected to play basketball. The perspectives of racial profiling were shown from Cordia High School in contrary to racial profiling and the other schools of knott county were in support of racial profiling.

Erica, I also believe that racial profiling is a big issue for law enforcement today. our jails and prisons are filled with young and old African American men and women with sentences that in many cases don't fit the crime. since the 1950's and earlier minorities and other people of different origins were targeted for being in areas mainly caucasian. I watched the video you were referring to and unfortunately that happens all the time. The United States is marred with injustice and now it has come to a boiling point. The American people are tired and living in an age of social media and video recordings, the public waking of law enforcement and its treatment of minorities will eventually bring