Key Terms For Racial Profiling

  • Controversial - causing argument, provoking strong dissagreement or disapproval
  • Ethnicity - relating to a person or a group of people
  • Human Rights - The rights that are considered by most societies to belong automatically to everyone freedom, justice and equality
  • Humiliation - the act of damaging somebody
  • Implement - Law requirement, something needed in order to achieve something
  • Lawsuit - a trial at court between two private parties
  • Ludicrous - utterly ridiculous because of being absurd, incongorous, impractical or unsuitable
  • Racism - belief that people of different have different qualities and abilities
  • Self-Esteem - confidence in your own merit as an individual person
  • Sexism - discrimination because you are male or female

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Approximately 32 million people have already been victims of racial profiling in America including all races
  • Many people think racial profiling can help stop "The War On Drugs"
  • Police stoping and searching cars is the number one way that can lead to racial profiling
  • Hispanics and African Americans are the most being victimized
  • Not only adults but Young Teenagers are victims of this
  • Racial Profiling Makes officers get confuse and think wrong about terrorist attacks for example, The oklahoma city bombing. The victims were actually 2 white males when police thought it was "Araban Terrorist"
  • Raced Based policies does not make our community any safer. Things eventually get more challenging
  • Racial Profiling makes countrys around look bad in ways of thinking that we do not like people of different races
  • According to human rights organizations racial profiling has actually increased ever since the attack on September 11
  • After September 11 president Bush wanted racial profiling to stop however, he made immigration and law enforcements policies tougher by coming up with the "National Security Entry/Exit Registration System" which requires male visitors in the US over the age 16 to resubmit applications.
  • Racial Profiling can create xenophobia or hate crime against minorities

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