Essay On Racial Profiling In America
Racial Profiling In America
Michael Miller
Everest University Online
ENC 1102 48 Composition II
Instructor: Deena Shehata
September 22nd 2013
Racial Profiling In America
Everybody has been taught to hate black, whether its black ice, a black cat, or black plague to the black sheep, the verdict is already been handed down, everything black is bad. That’s what history has told the world. From the days of old, to modern times, black has been associated with death, wrong, or misfortune. So it’s no wonder that in today’s society we associate everything bad with black. From a walk in the park, to a drive down the lakefront to quiet bonding with family, those peaceful and contempt situations can be upheaved in an instant by crime, and for those thought to be the perpetrators, there’s the constant threat of harassment. But although those serene moments can be disturbed by …show more content…
Now profiling has been extended to include people who are overweight, those of Muslim faith, and even people with disabilities. Overweight people are targeted by the transportation industry on a daily basis, people with disabilities are infringed upon in the workplace, and people with different faiths are targeted in almost every aspect of society in America. So racial profiling has grown to become a National Pandemic. Nadra Kareem Nittle, a writer for about.com, defines racial profiling as “a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law.” (http://racerelations.about.com/od/thelegalsystem/g/racialprofiling.htm), she goes on to talk about how people of Arab decent have become targets of profiling after the attacks of September 11th. But profiling alone is “the use characteristics to determine whether a person may engage in illegal
Michael Miller
Everest University Online
ENC 1102 48 Composition II
Instructor: Deena Shehata
September 22nd 2013
Racial Profiling In America
Everybody has been taught to hate black, whether its black ice, a black cat, or black plague to the black sheep, the verdict is already been handed down, everything black is bad. That’s what history has told the world. From the days of old, to modern times, black has been associated with death, wrong, or misfortune. So it’s no wonder that in today’s society we associate everything bad with black. From a walk in the park, to a drive down the lakefront to quiet bonding with family, those peaceful and contempt situations can be upheaved in an instant by crime, and for those thought to be the perpetrators, there’s the constant threat of harassment. But although those serene moments can be disturbed by …show more content…
Now profiling has been extended to include people who are overweight, those of Muslim faith, and even people with disabilities. Overweight people are targeted by the transportation industry on a daily basis, people with disabilities are infringed upon in the workplace, and people with different faiths are targeted in almost every aspect of society in America. So racial profiling has grown to become a National Pandemic. Nadra Kareem Nittle, a writer for about.com, defines racial profiling as “a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law.” (http://racerelations.about.com/od/thelegalsystem/g/racialprofiling.htm), she goes on to talk about how people of Arab decent have become targets of profiling after the attacks of September 11th. But profiling alone is “the use characteristics to determine whether a person may engage in illegal