The Pros And Cons Of Racial Profiling

From time immemorial, minorities have been attacked on grounds as basic as skin color. People of African heritage have been taken over the centuries as slaves—as less than human. Even in places without slavery, black people (along with many others) were labeled as inferior to white people; their places of origin were no exception. Even after changes were affected throughout most of the world, many minorities were still seen as inferior by many of the majority; of the most blame were those for whom pre-existing cultural inequality surrounding them subsequently molded life-long biases. The effects of the aforementioned mistreatment may still be seen —even as commonplace in some areas— to this day in the form of profiling. Racially profiling people is …show more content…
Racial Profiling is unsupportable both morally and practically because it is ethically wrong, wrongly proactive, and inestimably impractical. Racial profiling is morally wrong both in principle and in practice. Racial profiling is an active application of stereotypes and prejudices. Racial profiling violates the tenet of equality that citizens of the United States “are all Americans and [no one should] be treated differently on the basis of skin color or national origin [and that]…it is simply un-American for the government to be treating some Americans differently from other Americans (Clegg, ¶17&19)” as a policy. When this is allowed on any level, it shows that Americans are fundamentally losing touch with the historical reasons for America’s establishment. America was founded by groups who sought freedom from stereotypes and prejudices and built a nation that proclaims the equality of all. Yet racial profiling targets specific groups within the society, cultivates straightforward unequal treatment and