Blacks shouldn’t fit the description of criminal element of America
by Jordan Cooper
Can you tell if a person is hungry if they don’t say anything to you about food? Can you tell that a person is sick internally without them saying a word? Nope. You cannot certainly conclude that someone is a criminal by looking at them in normal daily life as well.
Racial profiling is a problem in every area of our country. We learn this fallacious thinking from our experiences in life. We are taught what routine things are thru the media, formal education, and our families. This is all defective because no situation is exactly like another in life. So, we must be tolerant of all races and the living preferences of law-abiding people.
Blacks make up 13 percent of the U.S population, yet we account for over a third of the people pulled over on the highways in America. Law enforcement officials often identify black men as looking more criminal than white men. So, we see the skewed lens for policing that many of our policemen suffer from. Then, blacks are outnumbered in representation in the city halls, county administration buildings, state capitols, and the U.S. Capitol. Therefore, when there is an emergency in a black neighborhood studies say the response time is slower than when a Caucasian neighborhood is in need.
One former prosecutor said “It’s a lot easier to go out to the hood, so to speak, and pick somebody than to put your resources in an undercover operation in a community where there are potentially politically powerful people.” As a result, there isn’t much in return for serving a black neighborhood. Not many politicians. Not many business owners. Not many religious leaders.
However, blacks who have a college education have a significantly less chance of being apprehended by the police than others that don’t have it, and have more opportunities to live in diverse neighborhoods. For an example, a retired federal judge in the South produced their credentials to a police officer, and the police officer escorted the retired federal employee home. With that foregoing example, we can see there is unfair deference given to select people.
Blacks still shouldn’t be profiled like a branded bull. Blacks still shouldn’t be profiled like an unsportsmanlike athlete on a field. Blacks still shouldn’t be treated like a ferret in California. Blacks should be treated with all rights and privileges that each citizen has.
Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the Real Estate School of Success in Irmo. He is the first African-American to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office as an aide and first to serve in the Inspector General’s Office in S.C. (Haley) He is also the first person to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). His research indicates he happens to be the second black presidential campaignspeechwriter in American History and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.