Monday, November 4, 2013

Racial Profiling Lives On

Its so funny to me, how today during the journal, i talked about something very similar to one of the main points of this article. I wrote in my journal how people with any type of power or authority, sometimes misuse or take advantage of their power, making everyone around them, their victim. Just by reading the first few sentences, I could right away relate to the author, and even the victim of this case. "The ruling by Judge Scheindlin, of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, does nothing to disrupt the authority the Supreme Court has given police officers to target African-Americans and Latinos with little or no basis. Despite the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of that provision gives the police frighteningly wide discretion to follow, stop, question, frisk and employ excessive force against African-Americans and Latinos who have shown virtually no indication of wrongdoing." This statement from the article itself, is just mind blowing. Does Racism still happen in our worlds today? HELL YEAH IT DOES. Even the court systems are not only allowing racism and racial profiling, but also ENCOURAGING IT. It truly is not only sad but heartbreaking, that to me racial profiling and racism is no what near calmed down since the 1900's when, for whatever reason, it was at an "all-time high." That to me is a bunch of bull, there is still so much racism going on everywhere in the world, it sure as hell hasnt settled down.

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