Many think of racial profiling as a relatively recent problem that manifested in the 1980s when news of African Americans being pulled over for “driving while black” began making national headlines. The problem, however, dates back centuries and is a fairly recent manifestation of discriminatory conduct by law enforcement and the criminal justice system that dates back to at least the 1700s in the United States for people of African descent.
R acial profiling is about racism and stereotypes that assume the worst of a race of people based on a biased racial perception of reality that are then projected and multiplied, affecting and endangering peoppole of a particular race, ethnicity, religion or nationality. Racial profiling is the …show more content…
The majority Balcks in South Carolina and other southern state were slaves and to show a pass whwn leaicn the plantation to prove they had permission to leave., or, if freed , they had to carey what wer called frredom papers to prove they were really free. Black people during the 1700 were subject to harassment, interrogation,whippings, lynching and and other physical punishment if they were found to have run away from a plantation and Like modern-day racial profiling, black popeles skin color, not their actions, made them the subject of discriminatory treatment from Police …show more content…
The black codes were laws outlawing “vagrancy,” which was defined as being unemployed . Thus aa convictions of vagarancy would typically require men, typically black men, to work off their sentences by providing free labor to whites.
What’s impoant to understand about black code laws, convict leasing and racial profiling is that they all violate fundamental principles of our democracy, which is equal protection under the law. The 14th Amendment, amended of the Constitution in 1868, was partially drafted as a response to black codes and convict leasing as they showed that laws were being applied differently for blacks and whites. The 14th Amendment was suppose to affir the citizenship of Blacks, and equal protection of laws, including the right to life, liberty, property and due process. Constitutional amendments, were passed yet those same laws are violated through modern day racial profiling on for the past 300 years. Racial profiling, that really became more pervasive problem during the three deaces old War on Drugs. That was officll declared by Ricard Nixon in 1971 and carried forward by Presidents Reaghan, Bush Junior and Senior and President
R acial profiling is about racism and stereotypes that assume the worst of a race of people based on a biased racial perception of reality that are then projected and multiplied, affecting and endangering peoppole of a particular race, ethnicity, religion or nationality. Racial profiling is the …show more content…
The majority Balcks in South Carolina and other southern state were slaves and to show a pass whwn leaicn the plantation to prove they had permission to leave., or, if freed , they had to carey what wer called frredom papers to prove they were really free. Black people during the 1700 were subject to harassment, interrogation,whippings, lynching and and other physical punishment if they were found to have run away from a plantation and Like modern-day racial profiling, black popeles skin color, not their actions, made them the subject of discriminatory treatment from Police …show more content…
The black codes were laws outlawing “vagrancy,” which was defined as being unemployed . Thus aa convictions of vagarancy would typically require men, typically black men, to work off their sentences by providing free labor to whites.
What’s impoant to understand about black code laws, convict leasing and racial profiling is that they all violate fundamental principles of our democracy, which is equal protection under the law. The 14th Amendment, amended of the Constitution in 1868, was partially drafted as a response to black codes and convict leasing as they showed that laws were being applied differently for blacks and whites. The 14th Amendment was suppose to affir the citizenship of Blacks, and equal protection of laws, including the right to life, liberty, property and due process. Constitutional amendments, were passed yet those same laws are violated through modern day racial profiling on for the past 300 years. Racial profiling, that really became more pervasive problem during the three deaces old War on Drugs. That was officll declared by Ricard Nixon in 1971 and carried forward by Presidents Reaghan, Bush Junior and Senior and President