Thursday, June 26, 2008

What I think about racial profiling.

In my eyes racial profiling is not right, even during times of war or national security threat. I don't find racial profiling right because that's blaming a whole race or religion for something that one person or a group of people did. The imprisonment of the Japanese after the bombing of pearl Harbor the racism against Muslims and Pakistanians after September 11 is a perfect example of racial profiling. In professor Kant's ( a famous philosophers ) eyes, actions like these would not be considered right or good. it would not be considered right or good because the government say their trying to protect this race or religion but they in fact have an alteriar motive (another reason to do whatever your doing). The Government really just want to protect American citizens from these so called "enemy aliens".Even the Cherokee that used to live in Georgia were taken out of their own land because the government wanted more land to build on and mine for gold once they found out there is gold their. AND WHAT WAS THE GOVERNMENTS EXCUSE? that if the Cherokee weren't removed from their land that they were going to be killed by the Georgians.PEOPLE, OPEN YOUR EYES. These people weren't the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor or crashed into the twin Trade Centers. These are AMERICAN CITIZENS and HUMAN BEINGS were talking about here. We are all the same in the inside people.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree with you 100%, but you didn't talk about racial profiling itself, it just talked about examples of racial profiling like the Japanese internment, the removal of the Cherokee and the current conflict with muslims and people from the Middle East in general. Your point is shown in the begginning very well, but throughout the essay, you just kind of drop that and talk about the examples. By the way, you should watch your conventions, i.e. CAPITALIZATION, where you missed alot. The Cherokee are supposed to be capitalized, along with many other groups of people who were not considered proper nouns by you. Other than that, you did good.

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