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The Causes Of Racism And Racial Profiling In America

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The United States has lived through generations of racism and racial profiling. Racism is the belief that different races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors, and that this grants same races with a significant superiority over others. After the days of the Black civil rights movement with MLK Jr., and the years of protesting to have equality in our country. The American people were left with a false notion that they had passed the days of being discriminated on based on their skin colors and they were able to walk down the street, enter a building, and get an equal opportunity as anyone else. Whether people think that we live in a racist free society, minorities today are chained to the thoughts of …show more content…

Also found through a popular website named facebook is a states written by an Ohio fighter who said “One dog is more important than a million n*****`s.” Which cause an outcry to the town’s mayor to fire him. What people write on social media can be compared to the Lucifer effect, in which typing behind a screen gives you more power to allow you to say and do whatever you want. The Lucifer effect is when someone who is in a place of power crosses the boundary between what’s good and decides to make bad decisions with the power they have. An examples of that is when President Trumps uses his twitter to make ignition comments about different race groups like when he said “ when Mexico sends its people, they`re not sending you. They`re sending people that have lots of problems, and they`re bringing crime. They`re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Over the years, there has been a rise witnessed cases of hate crimes, either caused by police brutality and/or by our own government officials. It has become a controversial topic among black and white communities that have seen police brutality take place in front of their homes to their own families and friends which sometimes result in life being lost. In the article this demonstrates the government's role in "initiating and prolonging racial suppression and provides the explanation for police brutality to become a federal

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