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Do We All Bleed Red or Am I Just Color Blind
Brenda Kahalehoe
COMM 220
June 14, 2010
Betina Troup
Do We All Bleed Red or Am I Just Color Blind
Brenda Kahalehoe
COMM 220
June 14, 2010
Betina Troup
Do We All Bleed Red or Am I Just Color Blind
Imagine a world in which everywhere you go, its judgment day. Where life is a big coloring book of negative ambitions with hate driven by many based upon the life one lives. This is what the average person of color still goes through today. One author states racial profiling is occurs when a police officer singles out people to detain based-solely on the fact of skin color (Cooper, 2001). One might say it is not just limited to race but gender, religion, ethnicity, social status, demographics, and sexual preference as well. Racial Profiling is not just racial, it expands past those boundaries. Racial profiling occurs when one person or group of persons singles out someone or another group of people simply because one is not like that group. Even though some may think racism no longer exist; this form of racial profiling still continues in society with race, occupation and residential location and many other areas of so-called social inadequacies.
In the 1980s, racial profiling was a policy used to train law enforcements to use to identify drug traffickers and criminal activity. Although government agencies deny these claims, the police reports confirm that racial profiling was used in routine traffic stops with Blacks and Hispanics. Many cases went unreported and many cases did not even any media play. For many years, it was up and one would think that after the revolution of the civil rights movement in the sixties it would have been abolished. One would hear about it in many songs of the eighty’s and finally it emerged into a lawsuit.
In the 1990s, there was a case, which involved a public defender and his family. They was pulled over by...
Brenda Kahalehoe
COMM 220
June 14, 2010
Betina Troup
Do We All Bleed Red or Am I Just Color Blind
Brenda Kahalehoe
COMM 220
June 14, 2010
Betina Troup
Do We All Bleed Red or Am I Just Color Blind
Imagine a world in which everywhere you go, its judgment day. Where life is a big coloring book of negative ambitions with hate driven by many based upon the life one lives. This is what the average person of color still goes through today. One author states racial profiling is occurs when a police officer singles out people to detain based-solely on the fact of skin color (Cooper, 2001). One might say it is not just limited to race but gender, religion, ethnicity, social status, demographics, and sexual preference as well. Racial Profiling is not just racial, it expands past those boundaries. Racial profiling occurs when one person or group of persons singles out someone or another group of people simply because one is not like that group. Even though some may think racism no longer exist; this form of racial profiling still continues in society with race, occupation and residential location and many other areas of so-called social inadequacies.
In the 1980s, racial profiling was a policy used to train law enforcements to use to identify drug traffickers and criminal activity. Although government agencies deny these claims, the police reports confirm that racial profiling was used in routine traffic stops with Blacks and Hispanics. Many cases went unreported and many cases did not even any media play. For many years, it was up and one would think that after the revolution of the civil rights movement in the sixties it would have been abolished. One would hear about it in many songs of the eighty’s and finally it emerged into a lawsuit.
In the 1990s, there was a case, which involved a public defender and his family. They was pulled over by...