Racial Profiling
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Racial Profiling
Intro- How would you like it if every time you drove home from work, or to school you were pulled over, asked to exit your car and had your vehicle and all your personal belongings violated and searched without permission. Furthermore your seats were sliced, parts of your door panel, seat panel, and sunroof were unscrewed and removed. All of your belongings in the trunk were removed and thrown on the street. After all of this the kind officer hands you a screw driver and tells you your going to need this and drives off. Would you like that?
Beginning of Racial Profiling & Black Codes
Racial profiling did not spring into existence in 1982 with the kickoff of Reagan's War on Drugs. Characterizations of people of color as menacing figures have long been a part of mainstream media and culture in the U.S. Racial profiling has existed in various forms since the end of slavery. During Reconstruction in the south, laws called Black codes were created...