The Gates Case: Racial Profiling

Racial profiling can bring people down in both a financial and personal way which leads to more racial profiling because being affected in these ways encourages one to continue profiling others as they have anger building up which needs to be released.
The Gates Case is an example of racial profiling. In the Gates Case, A black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was arrested at his home finally coming home after a long stay in Harvard, by a white police officer, for attempting burglary. “The officer, rather than treat Professor Gates as a respected member of the Harvard faculty, probably expected more illegal behavior from him because he was a black man. Professor Gates, in turn, probably “offered more defiance because the officer was white,” states New York Times. This supports my point that racial profiling can be destructive at a personal level. Gates would not have been so defiant if the officer was black and the officer would not have unnecessarily arrested Gates if he was white. This is one way racial profiling can come into play. …show more content…
“There is no question that the officer overreacted. Professor Gates should have never been taken to jail,”states the New York Times. Professor Gates was charged unnecessarily charged. Many more people unnecessarily charged just because of racial profiling.
America’s president Obama, being the first black president has a lot of experience with racial profiling. “And I know the bitterness swill of swallowed back anger” says president Obama (nytimes). This supports that if someone has experience being racially profiled, the that person will have more a reason to profile others based on that experience. As what Obama calls it, bitterness towards one another, and that's what is causing