Racial Profiling in the Law
Racial Profiling in U.S. History
Since the start of our great nation, a person’s ethnicity has had an influence on how they were treated and our government behaves in terms of government action and legislation. Some may believe that racial profiling is a problem that has only arisen in the past decade with the recent shootings of Michael Brown and other suspected hate crime killings. However, racial profiling has long before manifested with the effects being apparent from the law and the victims are not solely African American.
Racial profiling is racism at its foundations and is the use of stereotypes and negative biases which in turn gets projected on other people fitting the superficial description of race, gender, nationality, or religion. Ultimately, this affects them in negative ways and usually poses as a safety issue for these victims of racial profiling. In regards to the law, racial profiling is the use of a person’s demographics which include the same superficial descriptions, as a consideration when carrying out the. This includes arrests, detainments, and so forth.
A vivid example of ethnicity being a factor in legislation was how in the immediate aftermath of slavery and significantly within the 20th century, black men or those that resembled such were tricked into another form of subtle forced servitude. This ‘servitude’ was a penal labor system known as convict leasing where people, predominantly black men, would be leased to serve on private parties such as plantation owners or coal mining companies. In order gain control over the black population and support the whites, now independent of free forced black labour, black codes were developed in the south. As part of the black codes, black people were convicted for homelessness or joblessness, also known as vagrancy. The freed men being only recently freed were easy victims to the law. If convicted of vagrancy, they were often imprisoned and forced to work to dismiss their
Since the start of our great nation, a person’s ethnicity has had an influence on how they were treated and our government behaves in terms of government action and legislation. Some may believe that racial profiling is a problem that has only arisen in the past decade with the recent shootings of Michael Brown and other suspected hate crime killings. However, racial profiling has long before manifested with the effects being apparent from the law and the victims are not solely African American.
Racial profiling is racism at its foundations and is the use of stereotypes and negative biases which in turn gets projected on other people fitting the superficial description of race, gender, nationality, or religion. Ultimately, this affects them in negative ways and usually poses as a safety issue for these victims of racial profiling. In regards to the law, racial profiling is the use of a person’s demographics which include the same superficial descriptions, as a consideration when carrying out the. This includes arrests, detainments, and so forth.
A vivid example of ethnicity being a factor in legislation was how in the immediate aftermath of slavery and significantly within the 20th century, black men or those that resembled such were tricked into another form of subtle forced servitude. This ‘servitude’ was a penal labor system known as convict leasing where people, predominantly black men, would be leased to serve on private parties such as plantation owners or coal mining companies. In order gain control over the black population and support the whites, now independent of free forced black labour, black codes were developed in the south. As part of the black codes, black people were convicted for homelessness or joblessness, also known as vagrancy. The freed men being only recently freed were easy victims to the law. If convicted of vagrancy, they were often imprisoned and forced to work to dismiss their