Racial Profiling

Two African American ladies sit down at the table and peruse the dinner menu. From across the restaurant the waiter on the way to the table sighs and says under his breath “ here we go again, here comes another $0.50 tip for a lot of hard work”. Much to his surprise though when the ladies leave he returns to the table to find a generous 20% tip left for him for all his hard work. That waiter is me. So there I am sitting in the library for at least 45 minutes racking my brain and going through about ten books trying to decide what the heck I’m going to write this paper on. There are so many sub-categories on the topics of race and gender issues that it made my decision very difficult. As I sat there wondering where I was going to get 10 pages of material for a paper I thought about myself and my own views on racial profiling. I guess I never really categorized myself as a racist but the more I think about it the more I realize that I make assumptions based on race and the situation described above happens to me on a weekly basis. Am I a closet racist? Are there different degrees of being a racist? Is it just a case of social conditioning? In this paper I am going attempt to expose racial profiling for

Official skin-color prejudice is still reflected throughout the criminal justice system. There have been many policies made and almost approved to make these audits mandatory for all police departments. Although he has helped establish new civil rights gains for the lesbian and gay communities, he has also vetoed a number of bills aimed at reducing discrimination against communities of color and immigrants. All though my proposed solution is not the most money conserving idea, it will cover almost all the faulty lines, the bills and the policies have forgotten to mention. SB 44 had bipartisan support and was previously endorsed by former Attorney General Dan Lungren. 8221; when it is used for looking at a job application for the purpose of hiring the right number of people of color or the right number of minorities to accomadate the federally mandated Affirmative Action. The Reverend Jesse Jackson even needed to call for federal protection for whistleblowing police officers. 8217;s stirring 8220;I have a Dream8221; speech at the historic march on Washington in August of 1963. He stopped the car and got out to see what was causing the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Bibliography. The race against racial profiling the great era of civil rights started in the 1960s, with Martin Luther King, Jr. Many minorities are arrested with valid reason by law enforcement officers, just as white people are. Skin-color has become evidence of the propensity to commit crime, and police use this 8220;evidence!8221; against minority drivers on the road all the time. Although these years proved to be the highlight and downfall of civil rights in America, even with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act being passed, time has repeated these events again in the present. Today, skin-color makes you a suspect in America.