Racial Profiling and Racism: A Current Issue
When it comes to controversial topics, such as racial profiling and racism, is society the biggest cage when it comes to the basic rights deserved as equal humans? Starting from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and further on, the acceptance of different races and ethnicities has grown tremendously throughout the years. Yet as people we are faced with a question that we continue to ask ourselves: is it ethically and morally correct to treat people of races and ethnicities unlike our own differently? Are we able to break the barrier between different cultures and the color of our skin to another's?
With having 100 years passed after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans, those …show more content…
Racial profiling is an offensive and ineffective tool the law enforcement officials use. Not only have these events personally affected the lives of many young men of middle eastern descent, but a boy as young as fourteen years old who is of middle eastern descent. Ahmed, a young Muslim boy living in Irving, Texas, was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school. School officials, as well as many Americans, assumed it was a homemade bomb. Police officers came to the school and arrested Ahmed on the spot without even trying to listen to his explanation of what the device actually was. Ahmed’s story sparked a lot of controversy and anger amongst people. Kyle Smith, a writer for the New York Post, wrote, “That earned Mohamed a planned trip to the White House, a message of support from Hillary Clinton, an offer to stop by Facebook to meet Mark Zuckerberg and an invitation to be an intern at …show more content…
Although as a country we have come far in terms of discrimination and racism, we are still on the journey for complete freedom and equality. While the pool of suspects may narrow down for law enforcement officials, it subjects a particular group of people who are completely innocent to the crimes tied with that group of people. As far as it’s known, there is no statistical evidence of racial profiling being an accurate way to single out a person who assumed to be affiliated with terrorism or illegal activity. Racial profiling and racism are just two of the things that forces people to have a hard time trusting the law enforcement. Our system of criminal justice is controlled on the idea that individuals all have equal rights, yet that is still not the case in America. When law enforcement is not presented with tangible, factual evidence, it is immoral to persecute someone based off their appearance and ethnic background (Racial Profiling..2015). As we are faced with these current issues, we come to ask ourselves a question: are we going to backpedal our progress of freeing our society of discrimination based on appearance and ethnic background, or are we willing to continue on the path for
When it comes to controversial topics, such as racial profiling and racism, is society the biggest cage when it comes to the basic rights deserved as equal humans? Starting from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and further on, the acceptance of different races and ethnicities has grown tremendously throughout the years. Yet as people we are faced with a question that we continue to ask ourselves: is it ethically and morally correct to treat people of races and ethnicities unlike our own differently? Are we able to break the barrier between different cultures and the color of our skin to another's?
With having 100 years passed after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans, those …show more content…
Racial profiling is an offensive and ineffective tool the law enforcement officials use. Not only have these events personally affected the lives of many young men of middle eastern descent, but a boy as young as fourteen years old who is of middle eastern descent. Ahmed, a young Muslim boy living in Irving, Texas, was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school. School officials, as well as many Americans, assumed it was a homemade bomb. Police officers came to the school and arrested Ahmed on the spot without even trying to listen to his explanation of what the device actually was. Ahmed’s story sparked a lot of controversy and anger amongst people. Kyle Smith, a writer for the New York Post, wrote, “That earned Mohamed a planned trip to the White House, a message of support from Hillary Clinton, an offer to stop by Facebook to meet Mark Zuckerberg and an invitation to be an intern at …show more content…
Although as a country we have come far in terms of discrimination and racism, we are still on the journey for complete freedom and equality. While the pool of suspects may narrow down for law enforcement officials, it subjects a particular group of people who are completely innocent to the crimes tied with that group of people. As far as it’s known, there is no statistical evidence of racial profiling being an accurate way to single out a person who assumed to be affiliated with terrorism or illegal activity. Racial profiling and racism are just two of the things that forces people to have a hard time trusting the law enforcement. Our system of criminal justice is controlled on the idea that individuals all have equal rights, yet that is still not the case in America. When law enforcement is not presented with tangible, factual evidence, it is immoral to persecute someone based off their appearance and ethnic background (Racial Profiling..2015). As we are faced with these current issues, we come to ask ourselves a question: are we going to backpedal our progress of freeing our society of discrimination based on appearance and ethnic background, or are we willing to continue on the path for