Racial Profiling after Pearl Harbor and September 11th Attacks

Racial Profiling is the discrimination of someone’s race. Many think that it is wrong thing to do and many think it’s right. Some people may think that it will help out scoping out the ones that might do bad and some think that it is wrong because it is like judging a book by its cover. Racial profiling has been a major problem for many years. Major events like the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the attack on the twin towers make it worse because people that don’t originate from the U.S get seen as a problem. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were looked like the enemy because they were Japanese and were considered a threat because the people that bombed Pearl Harbor where of that race. The Japanese where later taken to camps where they kept them because they didn’t want to have problems with them there. Racial profiling has become a major problem because it discriminates minorities and judges them on race.

Racial Profiling is wrong in many ways, but it is seen as a tool to stop crime which is wrong because it discriminates minorities and creates more problems. After the events of Pearl Harbor and 9-11, the races of the Japanese and Muslims were hit hard with discrimination and seen as a threat by many. A lot of changes where set, rules where created to stop things like that to happen again because it devastated the United States in a major way. Even if events like that did not happen, other races are discriminated against. At airports, security has changed because they don’t want it to happen again. The things they have changed is that they have enhanced the pat downs when you’re about to get on a plane. They do body scans and they make you take of your shoes.

The one major thing they have changed to increase their security is th...

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