Proposal: Racial Profiling

There are many incidences of prejudice and judgment in our culture today. This includes judging people before knowing them, accusing people on false pretenses, and stereotyping a person for the way they dress or look. This issue involves many people all over the world of all genders, races, and ages. This is a high interest topic due to the level of severity of the activities involved with this prejudice and judgment. The main topic of this judgment is the idea of racial profiling, whether it concerns an African American person behind the wheel of a motorized vehicle or an East Indian person standing in line at an airport. This is a very pressing, significant issue due to the repercussions and results of putting innocent people through such severe turmoil through the miss-use of the law and racially profiling the innocent. Some people may fall into these individual categories. When it comes to racial profiling concerned with the operation of a motorized vehicle, most African Americans and some Hispanics are the main groups being targeted. These people are presumably involved with performing such illegal drug distributions, and therefore there is a pre judgment on their possible involvement with such illegal activities. When it comes to the airports and their unfair judgment of those of East Indian persuasion, the prejudice is most often more so from the people surrounding those of this persuasion rather than the law enforcement officials. They are guilty of it as well, but most of the citizens are the ones worried due to the previous terrorist attacks on September 11th. Most people are likely to not know the cold hard facts and percentages of people of these different ethnicities that are actually involved with the drug bust situations as well as the terrorist attacks. There may be evidence supporting the fact that there have been other terrorist attacks scares performed by those of East Indian persuasion, but due to this there is a stereotype placed with each individual East Indian person. There are statistics and facts that support both sides that racial profiling is mostly correct, but there is also information present disproving the idea that using a racial characteristic is not a justified cause for attention. There are so many diverse opinions on the situation that many agree and disagree. The region is also a concern when trying to determine what areas have the largest problem with racial profiling. The southern regions or states have history of having issues and prejudice even after the events of the civil war. There are many issues with that facing the other way as well. Those of African American persuasion have been found to have prejudice and a sort of racial profiling over those of Caucasian persuasion because of the history that has occurred and erupted between the two ethnicities. I think that everyone needs to be educated on this. They need to know that just because history may have shown some evidence that certain people are bad does not mean that all similar people should be treated poorly due to past mistakes. If there are certain given signs that easily show that something may be a-rye then there is justification in taking action. When using racial persuasion as evidence to seclude certain individuals or drawing attention to situations because those certain individuals are involved, that is unjust. Hard evidence and reason for suspicion are the only clues that one should look for when trying to intervene illegal interactions. I believe that every law enforcement officer or anyone involved in the law should have to be under surveillance or take a test in order to prepare them to not racially profile anyone due to their skin color. I think that this has been a pressing problem for sometime and stays at a substantial level as time goes on. I believe action should be taken in order to prevent future law enforcement and civilians to use racial profiling as a just cause for lawful action. I believe that if we prevent those who are young, eventually it will just be cleared from the system. I believe that once the war in Iraq is over, there will be lesser judgment of those who are of East Indian persuasion. I believe there will still be suspicion and cautiousness because that will take time to completely fade due to the time in which the terrorist attack occurred. I do, however, believe it may be possible to greatly reduce racial profiling in the next twenty to forty years. One thing that everyone should remember is to clear your head when meeting anyone no matter their race, age, gender, or any other characteristic that may impair the way you view someone, and you must listen to what they have to say and who they truly are before making any rash decisions or judgments that may be life changing.