Essay On Racial Profiling In America

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”, is what Martin Luther King Jr. said, while hoping that society will change their view towards a different race. America’s society has neglected to acknowledge this quote made by an activist. They have tried to change but all changes are reverted. But this idea is mostly neglected in the law applied to citizens of the United States. Although it is believed that racial profiling had decreased over the past one hundred years, it still surfaces in America’s society.
One way the history of America exhibited a lot of grievous activities that involved racial profiling. According to

The police did not even try to decrease these acts of racial profiling in fact they even encouraged racial actions. Another Cha Jua during the lynchings(Cruel racist acts specifically against African-Americans) which occurred from 1882-1910 occurred because of arousement from law enforcement, but also because the agents went against their equal protection responsibilities (Cha-Jua n.pag.). There are multiple examples of these horrific events that officers had persisted to encourage. These acts of encouragement and cheering on lead people to believe that it was okay to harm those for no reason besides the color of their skin. One of these lynching took place in 1920 that included a crowd of five to ten thousand people and three black men that were hung in front of a police station(Fedo vii). Showing that the police had done nothing to stop the incident, but could even have encouraged future events by allowing three men to be hanged in front of a law enforcement building. Confirming that police have before encouraged events where racial profiling has been