Arguments Against Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling, according to a New York Times Journalist, Bob Herbert, is a very common and an unfair way of life in New York City. Herbert’s article has become a big enough issue that they are still being brought up in the 2016 presidential election, as well as the young and more advanced political debates throughout the nation. According to Herbert, New York police officers are stopping and frisking specific people, including Hispanics and the black minorities in Bronx and Harlem. He specified that the least amount of people stopped and frisked were white people while they had the most amount of contraband than suspected minority groups (Herbert, 3). This unfair act had triggered the black journalist to bring up the issue in 2010. According to other journalists, this has been going around for several years, even after so many movements to stop “Jim Crow Laws.” …show more content…
Over the years of American History, the minority groups that were used as slaves or hard laborers were treated unequally and most unfairly by the majority group that founded the United States of America (government system, not the land). Because of the complex of each groups’ jealousy and the zealousness to survive, they have given each other scars that will only become thicker and thicker as the country keeps growing and improving technologically. Many of other issues have been mentioned that ignored this topic but whatever people decide to do afterwards, what needs to be taken care of first are protection of human rights so the state can reach a little bit closer to the ideology of the United