Conservative Ideal: Color Blindness, By James Forman

Conservatives believes that everyone is treated equally when that’s not the case. African Americans are more likely to get racially profiled by a police officer than Caucasians. James Forman draws in the audience attention by using emotions. He tells several different stories of African Americans who have been racially profiled by police officers. Foreman tells the story of kids who was racially profiled by police officers, that attend The Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington D.C. “Almost weekly this past spring, officers arrived at the corner of 9th and T streets NW (in front of our school), threw our students against the wall, and searched them.”. This type of behavior by P.O’s should not be accepted. They are supposed to serve and protect, not pick on someone because of the color of their skin; or because the look like they are up to something.
Some conservatives that support racial profiling think it’s all about effective law enforcement when it’s not. Effective law enforcement is investigating a crime that is going on. Stopping someone or inappropriately searching them, because they are standing on a corner of high drug use neighborhood is not effective. In the article Forman said that “ conservative ideal: color-blindness”. They want the government to stop making race and issue but how can we not? When an African American …show more content…
When no matter how perfect they are, they still get preyed on by police officers. One of the students at the Maya Angelou Public Charter School said “ We can be perfect, perfect , doing everything right, and they still treat us like dogs. No worse than dogs, because criminals are treated worse than dogs.” Black children should not have to worry about things of such. They should not have to worry about being thrown against a wall being asked to “ assume the position” when they did nothing