Essays on Racial Profiling

William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 and died on August 12, 1827. He spent his life writing and engraving poetry that is recognized today as work from a genius and are some of the most divergent works in English. However, during his own...

Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird on the cusp of the Civil Rights era, hoping to inspire change. The novel was published during the period of “racial” unrest in the 1950s, while the setting of the book takes place in the “Depression era” involving...

As there is a very clear difference between having a politically incorrect or ignorant thought and saying something that is racist, many do not recognize that concept. To have an ignorant thought is to lack knowledge in a particular subject. Normally, it is used as...

Racism is a plague of hate spreading throughout our society, infectious of whoever comes in its path. Jim Crow laws had enforced Racial Segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877. These laws meant all races were equal, but they had to...

Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. The Ku Klux Klan, or the KKK, is a white supremist group that rose in the southern states of United States of America...

There are monumental times in US history that have shaped our future. A future where we are looked at as equal and in more ways than one. Life has not been parallel for all Americans. Amendment XIV Section 1 “All persons born or naturalized in...

In society, today the Law is made by people in power. By having these people make our laws, they make them more suited to people of higher status in society and are steered away from the minorities. The law is made by people in power...

America has not fully reached that point of being able to accept people who have a skin color much darker than their own, or lighter. People only stop to look to the outside, never carrying or wondering what hides deep down underneath the outer layer...

In the United States and many other countries, individuals that come from foreign countries, different religions, different genders, and different races experience struggles. These struggles that these individuals face can be racism, oppression, and discrimination due to their gender, race, religion, etc. One large minority...

Asha is a 26 year-old African-American woman, a single mother of a 6 year-old Abir. She converted to Islam when she was 16, and she currently struggle to sustain herself and her child financially. While on the hunt for jobs, Asha has been discriminated not...