America is full of diversity. We have different races, ethnicities, and religions all around us. But, if you fall into the minority category, you will experience a different side of America that those who are white will not experience. This “different side” would be racial profiling. It’s not that everyone doesn’t do it, or hasn’t had it done to them. It’s the fact that the circumstances in which the racial profiling takes place. Racial profiling has many effects on negative effects people that can be eliminated. It is important to realize that race is something that is socially constructed by us humans. When Yale psychology professor, Jack Glaser, was asked what implicit bias was and how it relates to racial profiling, he responded that,
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People either steer towards the stereotypes, or away from them even if they are positive. Racially profiling someone takes away their uniqueness and individuality and that is something that every human being deserves. In “Who is a Whiz Kid?” by Ted Gup, he states that, “It is easy to delude one's self into thinking it harmless to offer racial compliments, but that is an inherent contradiction in terms.” This is relevant because, when many racial profile, they don’t realize they’re taking away that person’s individuality. Racial Profiling is lazy because it doesn't take time for people to claim that all races do the same thing when it comes to committing crimes. In an excerpt from Judith Ortiz Cofer’s book, “The Myth of a Latin Woman” she writes that, “In their special vocabulary, advertisers have designated "sizzling" and "smoldering" as the adjectives of choice for describing not only the foods but also the women of Latin …show more content…
Since they are not purposely trying to attract others, it isn’t a compliment to them to be addressed in that way. The negative effects she mentions in the text is that as a Latina woman, people take their fashion sense as them being vulgar and hopeless. In the article “Hailing While Black,” the author Shelby Steele mentions that, “Having grown up in the era of segregation, I know I can survive the racial profiling of a cabby.” As a black man, Steele feels this way because the racial profiling of a cabby isn’t the worst thing he’s had to deal with. Many recognize that racial profiling is a. problem, yet they don’t attempt to eliminate it. Without addressing it, we cause issues between other races by making them feel inferior to other
People either steer towards the stereotypes, or away from them even if they are positive. Racially profiling someone takes away their uniqueness and individuality and that is something that every human being deserves. In “Who is a Whiz Kid?” by Ted Gup, he states that, “It is easy to delude one's self into thinking it harmless to offer racial compliments, but that is an inherent contradiction in terms.” This is relevant because, when many racial profile, they don’t realize they’re taking away that person’s individuality. Racial Profiling is lazy because it doesn't take time for people to claim that all races do the same thing when it comes to committing crimes. In an excerpt from Judith Ortiz Cofer’s book, “The Myth of a Latin Woman” she writes that, “In their special vocabulary, advertisers have designated "sizzling" and "smoldering" as the adjectives of choice for describing not only the foods but also the women of Latin …show more content…
Since they are not purposely trying to attract others, it isn’t a compliment to them to be addressed in that way. The negative effects she mentions in the text is that as a Latina woman, people take their fashion sense as them being vulgar and hopeless. In the article “Hailing While Black,” the author Shelby Steele mentions that, “Having grown up in the era of segregation, I know I can survive the racial profiling of a cabby.” As a black man, Steele feels this way because the racial profiling of a cabby isn’t the worst thing he’s had to deal with. Many recognize that racial profiling is a. problem, yet they don’t attempt to eliminate it. Without addressing it, we cause issues between other races by making them feel inferior to other