While browsing through the articles today i found one that was very interesting. An article titled Activists launch racial-profiling hotline in the Denver post section talked about what denver drivers are doing about policing pulling people over because of racial profiling. The organization has over five thousand five hundred members. Many people especially blacks call about being pulled over for racial profiling.
This matters because every day we deal with racial issues. Someone is always classified for a certain thing. In airlines middle easterners are sterotyped to have a bomb. When it comes to jobs hispanic americans are said to be taking up all the fast food jobs and what not. It is sad to see that even though as a human race we have come so far but as people were just monkeys in suits.
This matters to me because in history my class is learning about the civil rights movement. This is when black people took a stand to have jsutice given to them. Back during the civil rights many black people were mocked and abused and in some instances even killed. Especially in the south where it was a common practice. Even today people make racist comments. We as a people need to stop sterotyping so many cultures and begin to embrace them and take one more step in world peace.
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