Equal rights for people of different races have come a long way since the civil rights movements in 1954 but we are still a long way from truly all having equal rights. Throughout all of history people of color have been treated poorly by the white man ,whether it 's slavery and genocide or just not giving people of color the ability to speak or live for themselves. Over the past 60 years we have come a very long way but racial profiling is keeping us from continuing the progression towards equality.
Racial profiling is common in law enforcement, whether its pulling over a person of color because they just seem more suspicious or if its shooting and attacking a colored person based off of stereotype based suspicions. Many people believe that …show more content…
When a black or hispanic man walks into a store its not uncommon for a store clerk to follow him through the aisles to make sure that they dont steal anything. When a black man walks down the street people in cars will lock their doors or move away from him as far as possible as he walks.In his article “Black Men and Public Space” Staples illustrates what his life was like within his first year of living in a city as ablack man “ I was to become thoroughly familiar with the language of fear. At dark, shadowy intersections, I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver – black, white, male, or female – hammering down the door locks.”(Staples 395) If a black man is wearing a large jacket its instantly assumed by law enforcers that he is holding some form of weapon. In the book “Everyday Bias” that is mentioned in the article by Gettys it talks about a social study that was done where people involved had to look between two pictures. In the first picture there were two men fighting , both of them were white, one man was holding a knife while the other was not. The second photo was the same scenario but in this photo it was a white man and a black man and the white man was holding the knife.They asked the participants who was holding the knife in each picture. For the first photo everyone answered correctly. Whereas for the second photo most people incorrectly said that the black man was the one with the knife.
Racial profiling is common in law enforcement, whether its pulling over a person of color because they just seem more suspicious or if its shooting and attacking a colored person based off of stereotype based suspicions. Many people believe that …show more content…
When a black or hispanic man walks into a store its not uncommon for a store clerk to follow him through the aisles to make sure that they dont steal anything. When a black man walks down the street people in cars will lock their doors or move away from him as far as possible as he walks.In his article “Black Men and Public Space” Staples illustrates what his life was like within his first year of living in a city as ablack man “ I was to become thoroughly familiar with the language of fear. At dark, shadowy intersections, I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver – black, white, male, or female – hammering down the door locks.”(Staples 395) If a black man is wearing a large jacket its instantly assumed by law enforcers that he is holding some form of weapon. In the book “Everyday Bias” that is mentioned in the article by Gettys it talks about a social study that was done where people involved had to look between two pictures. In the first picture there were two men fighting , both of them were white, one man was holding a knife while the other was not. The second photo was the same scenario but in this photo it was a white man and a black man and the white man was holding the knife.They asked the participants who was holding the knife in each picture. For the first photo everyone answered correctly. Whereas for the second photo most people incorrectly said that the black man was the one with the knife.