Essay On Driving While Black

Driving while black has an effect on many people whether they are young or old and any race other than white. Driving while black is racial profiling and this is a big problem in the black community and it needs to be fixed. The definition of racial profiling according to ACLU it is “the discriminatory practice of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.” This means that someone discriminates solely because they are different from him or her. Being stopped because he or she is black is something that hinders communities from growing. In black communities there is a thing called driving while black. Driving while black is when a police officer stops a driver that is black for a minor traffic …show more content…
For example, officers executing stop and frisk in Stanton island, New York, killed Eric Garner. According to CNN on July 17th Garner was stopped by police for selling cigarettes. When the officers confronted garner he surrenders by raising his hands in the air and told officers not to touch him. Then an officer comes from behind and puts garner in a chokehold. Garner cries over and over “I can’t breathe.” Garner is asthmatic and could not breathe. He laid on the ground motionless until EMT took him to a near by hospital where he was declared dead. Stop and frisk and driving while black are very similar. Even though in the examples they had things that they shouldn’t have this has effects on many blacks in the communities. Many African Americans believe that they are being targeted by police officers and they began to lose trust in police officers. The communities are scared and don’t know If they will be the next black person to die from the hands of police officers. This is a problem in communities because they have lost their trust and now they retaliate towards police. And there are not many police officers trying to help the